Favorite WWII Theaters

[ABWorsham]

Which are your favorite WWII Theaters?

[idk_iam_swiss]

SO many choices!

[cts17]

Italy and France obviously, that's where Canada's divisions fought the most!

I also don't really see France 1940 as a theater so much as an army parade and Rommel in paradise.

[Brain Damaged]

Midway was a decisive battle

[Deaths Head 420]

The eastern front, and the Pacific. There is just something about huge Navy's and Armada's of tanks pounding it out

[Adlertag]

You kind of forgott the battle of Berlin 45.

This was the most intriguing theater of the war, and also this small area had the largest consentration of military forces and firepower in the history of wars, and the largest numbers of casualties ever, from january to april several millions were killed in this theater. Also this theater had a possibility to start an even larger war with commies against democracy. If Patton had won the race to Dahlem Institute in Berlin, it is likely that Stalin had attacked the western allies. During march 18 it was dogfights between US and Russian fighters over Berlin, and Ike backed off and let Stalin take Berlin. Butt it was a close call. If FDR had left some months before, and with Truman in command, nobody knows. In this time the commies had 15 millions soldiers and the western allies had 16 million soldiers in Europe, making this new war the Barbarossa campaign in 1941 looking like a skirmish.

[ABWorsham]

You kind of forgott the battle of Berlin 45.

This was the most intriguing theater of the war, and also this small area had the largest consentration of military forces and firepower in the history of wars, and the largest numbers of casualties ever, from january to april several millions were killed in this theater. Also this theater had a possibility to start an even larger war with commies against democracy. If Patton had won the race to Dahlem Institute in Berlin, it is likely that Stalin had attacked the western allies. During march 18 it was dogfights between US and Russian fighters over Berlin, and Ike backed off and let Stalin take Berlin. Butt it was a close call. If FDR had left some months before, and with Truman in command, nobody knows. In this time the commies had 15 millions soldiers and the western allies had 16 million soldiers in Europe, making this new war the Barbarossa campaign in 1941 looking like a skirmish.

Nice post, I consider the Battle of Berlin as the closing battle of Eastern Front.

[Emperor_Taiki]

I love them all so much!

[Adlertag]

I love them all so much!

That is only because your family was not a victim

[ABWorsham]

I love them all so much!

That is only because your family was not a victim

Where is your family from? I would like to hear their story.

[Gewehr]

I've always liked Dday so the war in the west. Op. Overlord, market gaurden, paris liberations, battle of the buldge, the rhineland battles.....all of it. Also the eastern front just cause of the huge massive armys. Also cause stalingrad known as the turnning point against germany, leningrad, kursk, and the USSR being the one to ultamatly take berlin.

[Zhukov44]

You kind of forgott the battle of Berlin 45.

This was the most intriguing theater of the war, and also this small area had the largest consentration of military forces and firepower in the history of wars, and the largest numbers of casualties ever, from january to april several millions were killed in this theater. Also this theater had a possibility to start an even larger war with commies against democracy. If Patton had won the race to Dahlem Institute in Berlin, it is likely that Stalin had attacked the western allies. During march 18 it was dogfights between US and Russian fighters over Berlin, and Ike backed off and let Stalin take Berlin. Butt it was a close call. If FDR had left some months before, and with Truman in command, nobody knows. In this time the commies had 15 millions soldiers and the western allies had 16 million soldiers in Europe, making this new war the Barbarossa campaign in 1941 looking like a skirmish.

Yikes what a waste of lives...anyone in their right mind could see the war was over.

Your numbers are off--British intelligence estimated a Russian advantage of 2-1 on land.  See
http://www.history.neu.edu/PRO2/

[Aretaku]

The Pacific naval campaign...Germany could have learned a few lessons from America on how to run a submarine campaign!

Italy...nearly every Allied nation, from Brazilians and ANZACs to Free Poles and French, participated in this theater.

[ABWorsham]

The Pacific naval campaign...Germany could have learned a few lessons from America on how to run a submarine campaign!

Italy...nearly every Allied nation, from Brazilians and ANZACs to Free Poles and French, participated in this theater.

I thinks its hard to compare the American and German submarine campaigns. Both theaters were completely different.

[Aretaku]

I thinks its hard to compare the American and German submarine campaigns. Both theaters were completely different.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Atlantic_(1939%E2%80%931945)

Allied losses in the Atlantic (1939-1945)

Approx. 3500 Merchant vessels
175 warships

3675 total

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_submarines_in_the_Pacific_War

Japanese losses in the Pacific (1941-1945)

2117 Merchant vessels
611 warships

2727 total

The Germans sunk more merchants and more tonnage, but the Allies managed more kills per year, and were far more effective at destroying escorts.

The US managed this while also creating the largest surface navy ever seen, as well as it's operations in the Atlantic.

The theaters might have been different, but the end results are easily comparible.