What is your favorite World War II theater?

What is your favorite World War II theater? and why?
A. European
B. Asian & Pacific
C. Middle East
D. African & Mediterranean

 

He did miss that however on the Poll I made it should cover all of the theatres (let me know if I missed one).

 

mine would be the European especially the air warfare side of things!

 

West European air war. Might even look at a few boats while I'm about it.

 

For me the European theatre. Having taken part in what was perhaps the greatest event this Nation has ever experienced.
Anyone that fought in Normandy onwards has experienced events, battles, that test a man to his utmost. Some came through, some did not..

For our deeds, we shall be remembered long after we depart this mortal coil.

In the regimental histories we will be honoured for bringing freedom to the peoples of Western Europe. Freedom from the cruel medieval rule of the Nazi regime that had taken over that continent.
Sapper

 

He did miss that however on the Poll I made it should cover all of the theatres (let me know if I missed one).

Sorry bro, I didn't see your poll. I apologize.

 

I expresss ignorance here :What/where are MBO and CBI?

 

I expresss ignorance here :What/where are MBO and CBI?

MTO is the acronym = Mediterranean Theatre of Operations

CBI = China-Burma-India

 

Thanks for that Spidge , I am now enlightened

 

Favourite theatre in WW2? No question about it, old chap - The Windmill !

Regards,
MikB

 

according to current poll results Pacific Ilands war was more important than Eastern Front war in Russia.
nonsense!
the biggest part of german army was destroyed by russians, and everyone knows that.
i wonder, is it an ignorance or just a childish jingoism of the western society that makes you hide from the truth, since the truth is: the eastern front was most important.
just look at the losses and casualties nazi army sustained at Moscow, Kursk and Stalingrad.
shame that you hate us, russians, to such an extent...

 

Arnhem/Betuwe (The Island) area, have been interested in for about 27 years now,and living close to it, make things easier to research

 

according to current poll results Pacific Ilands war was more important than Eastern Front war in Russia.
nonsense!
the biggest part of german army was destroyed by russians, and everyone knows that.
i wonder, is it an ignorance or just a childish jingoism of the western society that makes you hide from the truth, since the truth is: the eastern front was most important.
just look at the losses and casualties nazi army sustained at Moscow, Kursk and Stalingrad.
shame that you hate us, russians, to such an extent...

Let us not get off the track here T-34.

The question is "Favourite" theatre and therefore is a personal preference and does not have anything to do with "Importance".

If you are inclined to start a poll for the "Most Important Theatre" you may see a change in the statistics.

 

As an American born three weeks before Pearl Harbor, I was raised by the generation that fought WWII. As a youth in the early 1950s, I watched the TV series “Victory at Sea,” and listened spellbound to veterans’ accounts of their experiences in the Mediterranean, Europe, and the Pacific.
While serving with the Asiatic Fleet in the late 1930s, one of my uncles, a career naval officer, observed firsthand the extension of Japanese hegemony in the western Pacific. His assurances to the family that war with Japan was inevitable were related to me later.
If I find the Pacific Theater more fascinating than others, it’s only by a slight margin. Here are a few rambling thoughts.

Pearl Harbor, Tarawa, Saipan, Iwo Jima; place names such as these from the Pacific War figure prominently in American remembrance.
It was the first, and probably the last, war to be waged on such a scale and upon such a stage.
More battles were waged at sea and more warships sunk than in all other twentieth century naval campaigns combined.

The Pacific Theater saw several significant changes in military doctrine.
It was the swan song for big gun navies. The events of December 7th, 1941, stilled any lingering doubts about the effectiveness of naval air power. And to prove that it wasn’t a fluke, seven months later U.S. naval aviators sank four Japanese aircraft carriers at the Battle of Midway.
Never before had such great armies been projected across thousands of miles of ocean. The logistics alone were a Herculean task.

Across the reaches of this vast ocean, from Guadalcanal to Okinawa, the theater witnessed some of the fiercest fighting of the war, on land, sea, and in the air.
Although the land campaigns were smaller than those in Europe, in China, the Philippines, and Okinawa they approached the Italian and North African campaigns in scale, if not in duration.

The greatest naval engagement in history was fought at Leyte Gulf in October, 1944. It was at Leyte that the Japanese introduced the tactic of suicide pilots to stunned Americans.

The experience gained in amphibious assaults in the Pacific built the foundation for the successful landings at Normandy and later at Inchon.

And it all ended with the deadliest air raids in history, air raids that gave birth to the Atomic Age.

JT

 

Let us not get off the track here T-34. The question is "Favourite" theatre and therefore is a personal preference and does not have anything to do with "Importance".

well, definitely eastern front is not among your ''favourites'', gentlemen...
and it's the same tendency over and over again, never the other way.

it reminds me of how events of ww2 were represented in "private ryan" movie
in comparison to those represented in "enemy at the gates" - the former portrays americans as heroes fighting in a battle of all times, the latter shows battle at stalingrad as just a rifle skirmish.

shame on american movie industry.
stalingrad is the battle of all times, and "private ryan" movie combat actions in fact belong to the battle at stalingrad (close range fight, knife fight etc.) not to the western front battles where fights never reached such a level.

thankfully there are more and more people in the west who know the truth, and they know who really won the 2nd world war.

 

As I said previously, if you wish to start your own thread you are most welcome.

In the legal fraternity it goes like this:

Asked.....Answered.........Asked ......Answered...Asked..Answered

You are using the same rhetoric for the same topic over and over again.

You say you won the war. The only reason you were part of that "Victory" is due to the Germans et al having to fight on a number of fronts.

If the "Allies" did not unite against Nazism & Facism in 1939 and Japanese Imperialism in 1941, the Soviets would have been defeated.

Now who won the war?

 

...If the "Allies" did not unite against Nazism & Facism in 1939 and Japanese Imperialism in 1941, the Soviets would have been defeated.
Now who won the war?

you know who...
and tell me please, when did "allies" commence their actions on western front?
you know when...
western front was opened only when it became clear that red army had wehrmacht's back broken at moscow, stalingrad and kursk.

but i seem to spoil your party.
sorry for that.

 

well, definitely eastern front is not among your ''favourites'', gentlemen...
and it's the same tendency over and over again, never the other way.

it reminds me of how events of ww2 were represented in "private ryan" movie
in comparison to those represented in "enemy at the gates" - the former portrays americans as heroes fighting in a battle of all times, the latter shows battle at stalingrad as just a rifle skirmish.

shame on american movie industry.
stalingrad is the battle of all times, and "private ryan" movie combat actions in fact belong to the battle at stalingrad (close range fight, knife fight etc.) not to the western front battles where fights never reached such a level.

thankfully there are more and more people in the west who know the truth, and they know who really won the 2nd world war.

Why would the American movie industry glamourize the Russians? The bottom line is, a movie has to make money, and who is going to see a movie with the tag-line: "Witness the Red Army single-handedly defeat the Nazi regime".

But don't delude yourself into thinking that the Soviet Union could have won the war without the help of its allies. Not only did the Soviet Union give no support to the war against Japan, but the creation of a second front greatly dispersed and weakened the German army. The Western Allies also bombed Germany's manufacturing facilities, which greatly reduced Germany's ability to wage war; and the Soviet army wouldn't have lasted past 1942 if not for the HUGE quantities of war material they were given to keep them in the fight.

The list below is the amount of war matériel shipped to the Soviet Union through the Lend-Lease program:

Aircraft.............................14,795
Tanks.................................7,056
Jeeps................................51,503
Trucks..............................375,883
Motorcycles..........................35,170
Tractors..............................8,071
Guns..................................8,218
Machine guns........................131,633
Explosives..........................345,735 tons
Building equipment valued.......$10,910,000
Railroad freight cars................11,155
Locomotives...........................1,981
Cargo ships..............................90
Submarine hunters.......................105
Torpedo boats...........................197
Ship engines..........................7,784
Food supplies.....................4,478,000 tons
Machines and equipment.......$1,078,965,000
Non-ferrous metals..................802,000 tons
Petroleum products................2,670,000 tons
Chemicals...........................842,000 tons
Cotton..........................106,893,000 tons
Leather..............................49,860 tons
Tires.............................3,786,000
Army boots.......................15,417,000 pairs

I will take your 'thank you' for granted. You're welcome.