Where would you have flown?

[FLS]

I would not have fit into any cockpit... Flack tower lookout would have probably been my assignment 

Recent events suggest otherwise. 

[skorpx1]

Would being part of the 82nd airborne div. and jumping out of C47's count?

If so i'd take that.

[GScholz]

I would have flown with the Waafs... Get to fly all the latest types without someone trying to shoot me down. And all my squadmates are hotties...  

[SmokinLoon]

Oh jeez... that is a difficult question to answer because war is Hell so why would I *want* to be a part of it?   But... I see the allure of "wishing I could have flown...."

I think it would have to be a toss up between flying for the Luftwaffe in a 190A on the Ost Front in multiple roles; flying a Mossi FB Mk IV for the RAF in the MTO/ETO; or flying a a P40E/F in the early stages of the PTO (hunting bombers/attack planes).

[Aspen]

Hmmm tough question.  Axis is ruled out since I'm American, but thats as far as I've gotten.

[LCADolby]

Hmmm tough question.  Axis is ruled out since I'm American, but thats as far as I've gotten.

This isn't a dream situation?! Damn... I'd be in England, dead in a Tiger Moth training accident.. in that case.

[Brooke]

This isn't a dream situation?! Damn... I'd be in England, dead in a Tiger Moth training accident.. in that case.

Nah, you'd be Moggy. 

[LCADolby]

Nah, you'd be Moggy. 

A rat catcher... 

[Brooke]

A rat catcher... 

I was thinking more along the lines of Moggy Cattermole in Piece of Cake.

[asterix]

I would have flown the only prototype PN-3 ever built (the best my country had to offer at the start of the WW2) to combat the aggressor from the east. Probably I would have been shot down, but in case of a successful bail, I would have escaped into Finland to fly a Bf-109 in the FAF (or FiAF).

[Delirium]

As a patient I had once told me, "I flew PT-9s, P40s, and P38s state-side as I did most of the training new pilots received for the war in both in Europe and the Pacific. No air combat for me but I had dates every night I had a pass."

I think most of us would rather sit it out than risk certain death. Not only human nature, but it is also common sense.

[Stampf]

If I had too...

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

[SmokinLoon]

As a patient I had once told me, "I flew PT-9s, P40s, and P38s state-side as I did most of the training new pilots received for the war in both in Europe and the Pacific. No air combat for me but I had dates every night I had a pass."

I think most of us would rather sit it out than risk certain death. Not only human nature, but it is also common sense.

My wife's grandfather was a flight instructor for the US Navy in WWII. He told me "he flew them all" but did most of his teaching in F4F's and F6F's.  He said the same thing, "it was a dream job". He got to "fly, have fun, and head off base as he wished.  Never got shot at, either."


 

[Someguy63]

If I had too...

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

Are you mad, man?!

 

[Stampf]

Are you mad, man?!

 

...only when I think about it.