to go back and fight

[LThunderpocket]

I've always had the desire to go back in WW2 as a marine and fight in the war.To me WW2 is when the world started to get "modernized".Germans started building rockets witch could be fired from miles away and hit a city(not always accurate,the V-1 and V-2).The U.S of A developed a nuclear bomb and dropped 2 on Japan.Germany was the first to devlop a jet fighter and use it in combat.Many more great achiements for man followed this era.Im sure everyone knows all of that stuff.

So I was gonna put it out there and ask,would you go back in time?would you fight in the war?witch theater?as a grunt or as a pilot?.

sadly enough,there will never be a "time machine" for any of us to do this.
have fun with this thread

[JOACH1M]

War is not fun, cool, or anything positive. It's a terrible thing I would never want to be apart of it, but I I HAD to go back in time and fight in ww2 I'd want to be a luft pilot, from about 1940-1943

[BnZs]

Fighter pilot in WWII? I'm guessing I've been there, done that.

Next turn of the wheel I hope to be driving a ship that'll outpace light....

[YGSM]

I tend to agree that War is Hell and I dont want any part of it.  My Grandfather was a JUG pilot in the war and he loved to fly until his service WW2.  He never set foot in an airplane again.  I said never even Commercially.  My father flew 105's in Vietnam (2 tours) and seldom talked about what they did.  I found more about his experiences through his "Bear" (back seater) and his journal I found recently.  I have not experienced combat and I expect it to be unlikely if I ever will.  War is a terrible distructive thing that should be at a last resort.  Salute to those veterans and may their service be saluted. 

JUGMANJR

[Shifty]

I tend to agree that War is Hell and I dont want any part of it.  My Grandfather was a JUG pilot in the war and he loved to fly until his service WW2.  He never set foot in an airplane again.  I said never even Commercially.  My father flew 105's in Vietnam (2 tours) and seldom talked about what they did.  I found more about his experiences through his "Bear" (back seater) and his journal I found recently.  I have not experienced combat and I expect it to be unlikely if I ever will.  War is a terrible distructive thing that should be at a last resort.  Salute to those veterans and may their service be saluted. 

JUGMANJR

Going by your handle YGSM... Was your father a Wild Weasel?

[Karnak]

I know too much about it to want to do it.

Thankfully, due to those who did do it, it is extremely unlikely I will have to do it.

[100Coogn]

I know too much about it to want to do it.

Thankfully, due to those who did do it, it is extremely unlikely I will have to do it.

I would go back, if I had the choice. 
But just look at all the wars we have now going on, to choose from...

Coogan

[mtnman]

I've always had the desire to go back in WW2 as a marine and fight in the war.To me WW2 is when the world started to get "modernized".Germans started building rockets witch could be fired from miles away and hit a city(not always accurate,the V-1 and V-2).The U.S of A developed a nuclear bomb and dropped 2 on Japan.Germany was the first to devlop a jet fighter and use it in combat.Many more great achiements for man followed this era.Im sure everyone knows all of that stuff.

So I was gonna put it out there and ask,would you go back in time?would you fight in the war?witch theater?as a grunt or as a pilot?.

sadly enough,there will never be a "time machine" for any of us to do this.
have fun with this thread

I'd love to go back in time, and there's a whole lot of things I'd like to see and experience.  None of them are really part of well-recorded history though.  They're all too early in history for that.  And although there was warfare going on, that's the part I wouldn't want to see or be a part of.

As bad as it sounds, the reason this game is so fun, is because it's so unrealistic.  I'm not talking about the flight model.  

I can't think of a single computer game that mimics the things I love well enough to make the game even passingly fun.  I love to fish and hunt.  Fishing and hunting games suck.  I love to camp, and shoot bows and firearms.  FPS games suck.  I can't imagine a camping game, let alone one that wouldn't suck.  My passion is falconry.  A falconry game would suck.  I love my family.  A family game would suck.

I've come to the conclusion that if I like it in RL, I'll hate it in a game.  If I like it in a game, it's probably because it's different enough from RL to be unrealistic, so I probably wouldn't like it in RL.

I doubt many of the people involved in WWII thought it was fun at the time.  

My (late) grandfather fought in Europe in WWII.  He never spoke of it.  Ever.  Not once.  He was wounded twice, and if you asked him about his scars he'd tell you "I was shot by the Germans".  Politely, but in a way that told you he wasn't going to tell you any more than that.  That conversation was over.

I don't tell my grandmother about AH, because it embarrasses me to be playing a WWII game "for fun".  There's no way she'd understand how I found it entertaining, having lived through it herself.

If you told my grandparents of your desire to "go back and fight" you'd have been put on their "list" of people that weren't fit to associate with.  They'd have thought there was something seriously wrong with you, and that you were possibly dangerous.  "Trouble".

[SmokinLoon]

That is a very tough question to answer. I would have volunteered, probably something in the army. Maybe some sort of liaison between US and UK forces.

It is hard to wish Hell for yourself.

[mtnman]

Wouldn't it be something if you went back and volunteered, and then got killed in a training exercise?  Or in the first few moments of combat?  Or you when you stepped on a landmine while looking for a place to take a leak?

[Reaper90]

mtnman, you nailed it.  

There is no way I would want to leave the relative peace and security of our current existance to go back to a time of such horror, destruction and suffering...

If I could go back in time it sure as hell wouldn't be to fight. I'd go back with all of the sports picks and lotto numbers, and I'd invest my rediculous winnings in Wal Mart, IBM, and Microsoft when they were still the little guys, and by now I'd have enough $$$ to own one or two real version each of every derned cartoon airplane we have here, and a few to spare. To quote Forrest Gump, I'd have "more money than Davey Crockett."

 

[Reaper90]

Wouldn't it be something if you went back and volunteered, and then got killed in a training exercise?  Or in the first few moments of combat?  Or you when you stepped on a landmine while looking for a place to take a leak?

Ooooh ooh ooh, no, I wanna get killed by a flamethrower! But only after suffering through 115 degree heat on a barren jungle island for a few months and seeing most of my new friends get blown to peices! YAY! It would be a blast... pun intended.

/sarcasm

[mtnman]

Ooooh ooh ooh, no, I wanna get killed by a flamethrower! But only after suffering through 115 degree heat on a barren jungle island for a few months and seeing most of my new friends get blown to peices! YAY! It would be a blast... pun intended.

/sarcasm

Either way I'd think you were a shoe-in for the Darwin Award.

[TeeArr]

In all actuality, the American Civil War is considered by most historians as the first "Modern" war, where technology outpaced tactics.  Rifled weapons and men fighting in straight lines is an example.  Thaddeus Lowe and his Balloon Corps observing the confederate lines from above, and steam powered armored gunboats and the first Iron Navy.  But if I could go back in time, it would be as a pilot in the first years of the second world war: 1939 to 1942.  The weapons (Planes) were technologically advanced and still unlike anything anyone had ever seen over the battlefields, and yet, they were still art.
Following up on others' comments, however; War isn't pretty, it isn't romantic and no one who has experienced combat returns unscathed, physically, mentally or both.
Anyone who says differently has read one too many "Dime Novels"and has never "been there". ( I am certainly no combat  expert either, but I knew when to listen to those who WERE there, when they talked).
If you want to watch great movie about guys returning home from WWII, see "The Best Years of Our Lives", with Dana Andrews, Frederick March, Hoagi Carmichal, Theresa Wright, Myrna Loy, Virginia Mayo along with many other great actors.  It won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1947.

[Reaper90]

Either way I'd think you were a shoe-in for the Darwin Award.

   wait... 

I was being sarcastic, mtnman, poking fun at the OP, who I think posted something idiotic..... Heck NO I wouldn't want to go back in time to fight, in WWII or any other war. If I could go back in time I'd want to go back in time to before the war and shoot the sunnovasweety that caused the war to start to begin with.