Would you rather fight in world war 1 or world war 2

[Robertclive]

People say WW2 was worse, but I would rather fight that then world war 1

[conon394]

Kinda depends - if you are say Japanese WW1 looks a like a walk in the sun...

[Erebus Pasha]

Neither...I'm just glad I've lived in an era when there hasn't been total war on a massive scale like that of WW1 and WW2. I am respectful for the sacrifices that our forefathers made and just hope to God that history will never be repeated.

[Prince of Darkness]

I want to be a Swiss/Swedish soldier.

[Theseus1234]

World War II, so I wouldn't be stuck in trenches and attacked with mustard gas.

[gsoxx]

World War II, so I wouldn't be stuck in trenches and attacked with mustard gas.

There were probably more trenches in World War II than in World War I.

[irontaino]

Neither

[Boyar Son]

People say WW2 was worse, but I would rather fight that then world war 1

War is war.

But then there is the scale of it. small firefights or massive battles. this is the difference.

There were probably more trenches in World War II than in World War I.

wrong.

[gsoxx]

wrong.

If you say so.

[Holger Danske]

Royal Air Force for me, thanks.

[HansDuet]

Ugh, neither.

[Lysimachus]

People say WW2 was worse, but I would rather fight that then world war 1

Neither. I think i've read enough about men getting blasted to pieces to not want to take part in it.
For example:

Account 1:

A US 10st Airborne captain is moving through woods with another soldier during the Normandy campaign. He then trips over something on the ground, and just as he does a shell flies right where his head would have been. He looks back and the soldier behind him had been blasted to pieces.

Account 2:

Jerry hit an ammunition dump, it was hell on earth, lads running, screaming, on fire, some lay there with limbs shattered ... We carried some of them back on a 3-ton lorry where the Medics were doing quick amputations. I never thought I could do it, but I was holding arms and legs partly blown off while the Medics sawed them off and cut the last bits of skin off with some scissors, the poor sods. ~ Corporal Ron Rhodes

Quotations:

The Irish Guards [1st British Infantry Division, 24th Guards Brigade] were further whittled away in the ravines and taking casualties to the very last minute of their time in the Boot. Even as they were handing over to the Dukes, thirty-seven-year-old Sergeant Jimmy Wylie from Belfast was killed in a German bombardment. When they left Anzio harbour two weeks later the battalion had suffered 94% casualties.

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The already shattered Foresters entered a particularly nasty area at the end of February with a strength of 250 officers and men. The unit was immediately subjected to all manner of bombardments and infantry attacks, and at one point the Germans were rolling hand grenades from the edge of a gully down into their slit trenches. When they were relieved five days later the Foresters, too tired to climb out themselves, had to be pulled out of their slit trenches. Their sunken eyes spoke of the most immense trauma. There had been just thirty survivors. ~ Anzio (Lloyd Clark)

[René Artois]

Neither. I think i've read enough about men getting blasted to pieces to not want to take part in it.
For example:

Account 1:

A US 10st Airborne captain is moving through woods with another soldier during the Normandy campaign. He then trips over something on the ground, and just as he does a shell flies right where his head would have been. He looks back and the soldier behind him had been blasted to pieces.

Account 2:

Jerry hit an ammunition dump, it was hell on earth, lads running, screaming, on fire, som lay there with limbs shattered ... We carried some of them back on a 3-ton lorry where the Medics were doing quick amputations. I never thought I could do it, but I was holding arms and legs partly blown off while the Medics sawed them off and cut the last bits of skin off with some scissors, the poor sods. ~ Corporal Ron Rhodes

Quotations:

The Irish Guards [1st British Infantry Division, 24th Guards Brigade] were further whittled away in the ravines and taking casualties to the very last minute of their time in the Boot. Even as they were handing over to the Dukes, thirty-seven-year-old Sergeant Jimmy Wylie from Belfast was killed in a German bombardment. When they left Anzio harbour two weeks later the battalion had suffered 94% casualties.

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The already shattered Foresters entered a particularly nasty area at the end of February with a strength of 250 officers and men. The unit was immediately subjected to all manner of bombardments and infantry attacks, and at one point the Germans were rolling hand grenades from the edge of a gully down into their slit trenches. When they were relieved five days later the Foresters, too tired to climb out themselves, had to be pulled out of their slit trenches. Their sunken eyes spoke of the most immense trauma. There had been just thirty survivors. ~ Anzio (Lloyd Clark)

Jerry? What are you, a 90 year old Englishman?
or perhaps a closet Duffer...

[Lysimachus]

Jerry? What are you, a 90 year old Englishman?
or perhaps a closet Duffer...

I'm sure Corporal Rhodes would be ninety by now actually. Or dead.

[Miroslav Klose]

A Swaziland soldier

[Prince of Darkness]

A Swaziland soldier

Swaziland exists by that time?

[Poach]

It would depend entirely on what Army I served in and what part of that Army I served in.

For example, you were probably safer in WW1 as an Artilleryman than you would be in WW2, what with the lack of enemy airpower or fast armour.

[removeduser_4536284751384]

supposing you were German and knew about the final solution.

would you join the SS and try to be a secret resistance agent? No idea how you could help without being discovered really...

[RomanSoldier9001]

supposing you were German and knew about the final solution.

would you join the SS and try to be a secret resistance agent? No idea how you could help without being discovered really...

No. If I was german I would probaly never knew about Final Solution and I would probaly join Heer or Waffen SS as good german patriot.

[Azog 150]

As a Brit I would rather have fought in World War 2.

Like others have said though, I am just glad we are not a generation on which full scale war has been forced onto us. It still amazes me what the generations of World War 1 and 2 had to live through.