Why would any soldier not choose to be a pilot?Their roles were kino and they had 100% death guarantee.The thing that scares me the most about war is being crippled in no mands land and agonizingly dying for several hours if not even days.
>>18455190Plus most of the job is done sitting and is probably a little fun as well
WW2 pilots had insanely high casualty rates retard, sometimes more then the infantry did. Something like 99% of the Japanese pilots who bombed Pearl Harbor died later in the war. Almost 50% of Canadian bomber pilots were killed. 15000 American airmen died in accidents alone. If you crash landed your plane you’d likely burn to death. If you bailed out over the pacific you’d likely be eaten by sharks or drown. God help you if the Japanese found you, they’d tie anchors to your feet and throw you overboard like they did to the American pilots they captured at Midway. If I were in WW2 I would try to be a pilot myself but to suggest that the pilots were safe or had it easy is wrong. It was in many cases a delayed death sentence.
>>18455236>WW2 pilots had insanely high casualty rates retardIn Eastern front you would die regardless. May as well get it over with quickly.
Most soldiers in World War II never had to engage in combat. In the regular army you'd get a role like truck driver, telephone operator, sentry, small arms repairman, et cetera. Sure, you might not be so lucky, or you might be targeted by an enemy breakthrough or a bombing (like the poor fuckers who were 'lucky' enough to be stationed in German bunkers in Normandy in 1944), but for the most part you'd just be doing logistics.Usually the more high-risk stuff - squad-level front line service, submarines, bombers, fighters, that type of thing - was voluntary and required additional training, so it mainly attracted people who wanted a thrill or to have better pay. Those are the people who suffered 60-80% death rates, while regular grunts had much lower death rates. Look at it this way - even in Germany, which was bombed to hell and defeated in a years-long grinding land war, less than 1/3 of all soldiers died, and it's likely that another 1/3 of soldiers (conscripts, sentries and logistics men) never even saw combat.Point is, as long as you were not in the first wave of attackers and you were not encircled completely, overall odds say you'd survive military service in WWII, with the best odds in the armies of the Western Allies and the worst odds in the Red Army.
You needed perfect vision and a high level of physical fitness, and as other anons have noted, casualty rates were high. Even flight school was dangerous with a lot of accidents. Watch Masters of the Air to get a sense of how much flying could suck in so many horrific ways.
>>18455236>>18455276git gud
>>18455190several days you say?
>>18455190>they had 100% death guarantee.This is your selling point?
