Which theater of War Would you choose for flying?

Which theater of World War II Would you choose for flying?

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very cheap, we shall have to have some form of simulated dogfight sumday, naturally you'll be in a tigermoth with a BB gun, now the, what plane should i have...........
 
Honestly even for someone who loves flying as much as myself I would not have wanted to fly in any theatre of WW2, I value my life too much but if I had to choose it would have been the European. I think the aircraft in that theatre were the greatest and with all the bad weather over Germany (and trust me the weather is horrible I fly in it almost everyday before my unit got sent to Iraq) you would get many days not being able to fly and get shot down.
 
Where's Russia in this poll?

Seriously, the ETO!

The PTO was miserable, especially for ground based units. Malaria and disintary were common... how'd you like to fly a combat mission when you cannot hold your shit? And if you get shot down and end up in the water, you get eaten by sharks or have your head chopped off by some Samuri wannabe! What fun!

North Africa was also pretty miserable. And both the PTO and to a close degree North Africa had another bad feature - NO WOMEN!

Much better to be based in England or France or Germany and have a warm bed to sleep in, good food to eat, and women to....

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Lunatic
 
cheddar cheese said:
Where's Russia in this poll?
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I think that would kinda count as Europe
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No, the Eastern front was so far away from the Western front, and the combat conditions were so different, that it is not appropriate to count them as the same theater. Also, the Germans did not consider them as the same theater.

It was further from the Western front to the Eastern Front than it was from the Western Front to the Med. Front until the last few months of the war!

The Eastern Front should be a seperate choice.

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Lunatic
 
No the Russian front was part of the European Theatre. The Germans never pushed into the Asia part of "Eurasia". Trust me I know my European geography I lived in Germany my whole life and my grandfather fought on the east front and in Stallingrad. That is why the Germans called the West Front and the Ost Front.
 

It's not a matter of geography, it's a matter of conditions. The E. Front was very different in climate and in the nature of combat. On the W. Front, most air combat was over 15,000 feet, often over 25,000 feet. On the E. Front, it was almost all below 15,000 feet. There was no strategic air war on the E. Front, where on the W. Front until D-Day, there was no tactical war, and after D-Day the strategic war still had the priority. The differences were like night and day.

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Lunatic
 
cheddar cheese said:
Its still in Europe, therefore it in the European theatre...
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Again, I have to say this is arbitrary nomenclature. If there was a continental plate running down the middle of Germany this would then make it two seperate Theaters? What about the MTO? There is no contiental plate defining that theater from the ETO.

The Allies recognized 3 theaters: ETO, MTO and PTO.

The Germans recognized 3 fronts: West, East, Med.

The Russians recognized one front: West (Germany's East)

The Japanese were too confused to really recognize specific fronts, but they clearly had a China front, an IndoChina Front (Korea, Burma, Philapines), a Pacific Front (perhaps divided into 2 regions), and an Australian Front.

Generally I see 5 real fronts: ETO, MTO, Russian, PTO, China/Asia

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Lunatic
 
Yes Russia is in Eurasia because most of it is in Asia however the farthest part that Germany pushed into was the still in the European part and therefore it is the European theatre.
 
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