Where would you have flown?

[Someguy63]

...only when I think about it. 

 

[TheCrazyOrange]

If I had too...

...The Courland Pocket, April/May of '45. 190F.

Someone's got balls.

I'm just waiting for someone to say a kamikaze pilot.

[Stampf]

Someone's got balls.

No. 

The men there and then did though. 

As a man who has never served or seen...like many, I would just hope I had the same courage as they did, in the face of such futility.  With the war lost, a good answer to the Original Post seemed to be one, where some good could possibly be pulled from the whole god awful mess.

 

[Ack-Ack]

First flying with a P-38 squadron in the MTO and then moving over to the PTO when some of the MTO Lightning squadrons got transferred to that theater.

ack-ack

[Zoney]

I would have started in an A5, moved into a Dora, then at the last of the war I would have been at high altitude, hunting in my TA152, knowing the war would not be won by Germany, just trying to win a fight or two before it was all over.

[Ardy123]

because I like being alive... I'd have to go with flying p51s escorting bombers in the later years of ww2 over Europe... Still get to fly a fighter plane, not as risky as many of the other options.

[-ammo-]

Tell that to the members of the 56, 78, and 4th FGs that were introduced to the LW in the Spring of 43. 

I love reading about the exploits of pilots of P-51 units in '44 and comparing them with those of those 8th AF fighter groups that learned the hard way in '43.  What a difference a few months made

[Ardy123]

Tell that to the members of the 56, 78, and 4th FGs that were introduced to the LW in the Spring of 43. 

I love reading about the exploits of pilots of P-51 units in '44 and comparing them with those of those 8th AF fighter groups that learned the hard way in '43.  What a difference a few months made

If you have some (internet links to those stories).. post it... I'd love to read them

[Charge]

What would have been interesting: Flying a night fighter in ETO, either a Mossie or 110 or He219, however the chance of survival was not good in this job...
What would have been patriotic: Flying a Finnish fighter on eastern front.

But damn I'm glad that didn't have to be there.

-C+

[morfiend]

If I had too...

...The Courland Pocket, April/May of '45. 190F.

      


   Why did I know that would be your answer!    


   If and it's a big IF I was forced to fly,my dream office would be in the Mossie,nightfight lowlevel intruder,wouldnt matter to me!

  Second choice would be eastern front at the beginning of hostilities,flying a 190 and being despised!



    

[-ammo-]

If you have some (internet links to those stories).. post it... I'd love to read them

I am sure there are some on the internet (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF3YR-1ucIU), but I would rather refer you to a short reading list:

Thunderbolt; Robert S. Johnson
Wolfpack Warriors; Roger Freeman
Zemke's Wolfpack; Hubert Zemke
Honest John: The Autobiography Of Walker M. Mahurin, Walker Mahurin

[TonyJoey]

I am sure there are some on the internet (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF3YR-1ucIU), but I would rather refer you to a short reading list:

Thunderbolt; Robert S. Johnson
Wolfpack Warriors; Roger Freeman
Zemke's Wolfpack; Hubert Zemke
Honest John: The Autobiography Of Walker M. Mahurin, Walker Mahurin

Thunderbolt was the first World War 2 autobiography I ever read, and it remains one of my favorites. My next venture I think will be to read from the Axis perspective, as all I have read up till now have been from the Allies. JG26 at Abbeville in 1942 and early '43 I think would have been some nice times (comparatively speaking) living in the heart of France, flying a sleek new Focke Wulf 190, and fighting over the Channel and friendly territory for the most part.

[BaldEagl]

Most likely I'd have been a draft dodger moving to Canada to avoid the draft.

Not really.  I'd have sucked it up and gone but wouldn't have been happy to.

In my dreams I'd have been an RAF fighter ace in the Battle of Britan flying my Spitfire Mk I to glory or an F4F ace in the Battle of Midway or a P-51 pilot escorting bombers over Germany.

In reality I'd probably be dead for real attempting either of the first two.

[Karnak]

Most likely I'd have been a draft dodger moving to Canada to avoid the draft.

I don't suspect that moving to Canada would have facilitated that at that time.  Not unless you went out and lived in the wilderness with none to know.

You see, Canada was rather in it as well.  In fact some Americans snuck across the border to join up with the RCAF before the USA was in it.

[Xavier]

Mossie pilot. I guess that'd give me the biggest chance to make it out alive.