Worst Part of WWII?

POW camps on both sides during Stalingrad.

>cannibalism, cannibalism everywhere

>>2872494
the sinking of the HAMS Sydney after fighting the fighting the Kormoran

>>2872494

1/3rd of 900 people survived after 3/4 days in the water with few have life rafts. That wouldve happened with or without sharks.

>>2872559
There were around 150 attacks, though.

The parts of the New Guinea campaign where the Allies realized it was more efficient to simply trap the Japanese in the jungle without actually attacking them. There was that one island where 516 Americans were killed containing the Japanese garrison, over 16,000 members of which starved to death. Whenever a farm was spotted a bomber would dump napalm on it.

being on the deck of a ship while japanese zeros flew towards you in suicide attacks seems pretty harrowing.

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>that time hundreds of japs might have been eaten by crocodiles in the night

being a tanker

you were in a can of steel blind as a bat as soon as shooting starts and you are ordered to drive forward, you are the bait, everything will shoot at you

advanced horror story if you were in the recon unit of an armored/panzer division where you cant even shoot back because your protection is speed in the times when offroad capabilities were limited and you are either in a light tank or just an armored car

i mean your job is to drive up and provoke enemy heavy weapon fire to see where they are, thats how you were scouting
over and over again, in some cases for 6 years

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Not super scary but scary nonetheless.
>Liberation of the Philippines, 1944.
>A Buncha japs are holed up in one of the concrete blockhouse forts Americans made years before. Fort Drum. "The Concrete Battleship."
>Americans neutralize the fort and tell the nips to come out.
>Nips: lolno banzai banzai memes.
>Yanks pour a diesel/gasoline solution into the fortress for a day.
>Then they lit it on fire.
>Nips roast to death inside fort.
>Fort kept brewing for days on end until 14 days later, it was deemed safe to examine the area.

>>2872690
Same for submarine I guess. Only worse because there's no way out.

The Japanese cannibalizing white soldiers thinking it would give them magic powers

>>2872696
That's a shame.

You could just as easily do 99% seawater to 1% gasoline and it works just as well.

Waste of fuel.

>worst part of WW2
>all the events in the post happened in the pacific
what a wonderful theater

>>2872494

Apparently, the Indianapolis story was originally intended to be used as the setting for Jaws 2. They really should have gone that route.

>>2872494

I once heard a story that American soldiers would drain blood from dead Japanese soldiers to demoralize the enemy. Apparently, the idea was that it would make the other side think that the local equivalent of vampire was on the lose.

Mass suicide of Demmin, about 1,000 killed themselves of a population of 15,000. Must have been pretty epic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_suicide_in_Demmin

>>2872786
Yes the pacific was very wonderful.

IJN Damage control, as explained by /k/
>single bomb through elevator
>breaks fuel tanks open
>captain just says fuck it, patch flight deck and we'll deal with the damage later
>fumes start building up
>captain orders all doors opened and portholes broken so the ship can air out
>six hours after the bomb hit
>a single spark ignites the largest fuel-air bomb in history
>men on the bridge watch the flight deck lift up as flames shoot out of every orifice
>Taiho sinks in minutes.

>>2873429
Better version.
>American sub spots Taiho as it's launching planes
>fires a spread of six torpedos
>four torps miss, one gets kamikaze'd by a Jap pilot (seriously, dude crashed his plane into a torpedo), but the sixth hits Taiho
>There's a hole on her hull, and the impact also fractures the aviation fuel tanks and jams the forward elevator between decks
>forward elevator pit starts to fill with a mixture of seawater, fuel oil and aviation gasoline
>captain of Taiho orders the jammed elevator pit covered with planks, benches and tables to continue flight operations
>while two more waves of aircraft are launched, aviation gasoline accumulating in the forward elevator pit begins to vaporize and permeate the upper and lower hangar decks
>attempts to pump out the damaged elevator pit empty fail
>In a desperate attempt to ventilate the lower decks, all possible hatches and doors are opened and even the the glass in the ship's portholes is smashed with hammers
>opening all doors and hatches only causes the vaporized fuel fumes to enter other sections of the ship
>about six and a half ours after the initial torpedo hit the inevitable happens, and a spark or a flame from an unknown origin sets off the fumes
>Force of explosion causes the flight deck to heave up and the he sides of the ship to blow out
>Taiho beings to sink soon after that, taking 1650 officers and men out of a complement of 2150 with it.

tl;dr: Japanese "damage control" turned their aircraft carrier into a floating fuel-air bomb, with predictable results.

>>2872786
Was it because the Japanese were batshit?

>>2872802
my highschool calc teacher was an extra in jaws

>>2873449
More idiot savant. They were crazy good at multi-carrier ops (coordinating six carriers in a unified strike? In 41?), but then basically abandoned anything that wasn't GLORIOUS KANTAI KESSEN.

>>2873449

that and the shitty horrible places the war was fought in the Pacific, wet disease-ridden jungles and desolate rocks dotted across the Pacific ocean

>>2872749

>when you don't need to skimp on the gasoline to burn a fortress alive

There was that one time when British pursued Japanese in a Swamp in Burma. The thing is the swamp was filled with saltwater crocodiles and about 1000 japs got killed, while the allies were standing outside and could hear their screams for miles the whole night.

>>2872637
Holy shit is this what Alfred was talking about?

>>2872637
Napalm wasn't used in the PTO.

>>2874321
>Further use of napalm by American forces occurred in the Pacific Theater of Operations, where in 1944 and 1945, napalm was used as a tactical weapon against Japanese bunkers, pillboxes, tunnels, and other fortifications, especially on Saipan, Iwo Jima, the Philippines, and Okinawa, where deeply dug-in Japanese troops refused to surrender. Napalm bombs were dropped by aviators of the U.S. Navy, the United States Army Air Forces, and the U.S. Marine Corps in support of their ground troops.[14]

>>2872696
>diesel/gasoline solution

that doesn't make much sense

>>2874325
>1944 and 1945
>New Guinea campaign

>>2874339
>New Guinea Campaign
> -January 1942 - August 1945

>>2874321
wat?

>>2872494
Anything Stalingrad related.

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>>2873507
>Kantai Kessen

>lifelong fisherman
>with a love for sharks
?????? You have a weird definition of love mang

Rzhev

Leningrad

>>2872905
Ho ho your the edgiest bro!

Getting wounded as a Chinese soldier.

>"Missionaries in northern China reported how 200 seriously injured soldiers had been placed inside a barrack, which had then been set ablaze, not by the Japanese but by their own. There was nothing that could be done for them, the Chinese officers responsible for the atrocities said with a shrug."

this was early in the war btw, when Chinese medical care was at its best.

>>2874339
>>2874321
I honestly cant tell if you are trolling or just really stupid.