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groomsie said:
I'm not sure on the casualty rate of US subs overall, but German U-boat had a 75% casualty rate. https://historyincharts.com/german-u-boat-losses-in-world-war-ii/. I believe that--beyond small units which were sometimes wiped out--this was the highest casualty rate of any broad classification of service in WW II.
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Yeah, I knew being sent out on a U-Boat was close to a death sentence.

The original context was from the Allied or American perspective, though.

For that, I still think a bomber crew in Europe was about as bad as it could get.

If you expand it to all combatants, though... there's a reason Das Boot is the film it is.
 
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There’s some debate about whether the nukes ended the war, or the entry of Russia against Japan.

Firebombing was pretty brutal if you look at those pictures and casualty numbers.
 
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Sigmapolis said:
Yeah, I knew being sent out on a U-Boat was close to a death sentence.

The original context was from the Allied or American perspective, though.

For that, I still think a bomber crew in Europe was about as bad as it could get.
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Especially if you ended up in a gunner position on one of those bombers.
 
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Pope said:
It's been a long time since I've seen a movie at a theater, but I'm so pumped to go see Oppenheimer. It opens July 21 and I'd wager it's going to be the best movie of the year.
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Sadly I don't think that movie will qualify for Best Picture Oscar. I would get into why, but that is a Cave topic.

As a fan of Manhattan Project history, I cannot wait to see this movie.
 
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Gorm said:
Sadly I don't think that movie will qualify for Best Picture Oscar. I would get into why, but that is a Cave topic.

As a fan of Manhattan Project history, I cannot wait to see this movie.
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Meh. We like the Oscars, have family over every year, cook a big dinner, it's fun. But the awards themselves are what they are. Rarely does the film that I think is the best film of the year win best picture... Her, Whiplash, Room, Lion, Jojo Rabbit, etc. Am glad Coda won last year.
 
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Here is a link to a good read about the ISU Chemist who worked on the Manhattan project. Pretty wild what they were doing in Ames and how important it was to the project. The book can probably also be found for check out at your online library.

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Wilhelm’s Way: The Inspiring Story of the Iowa Chemist Who Saved the Manhattan Project

Reveals the untold story Dr. Harley Wilhelm, the humble scientist whose keen analytical mind and problem-solving skills helped end World War II. Available at your local bookstore for purchase or he…
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Gonzo said:
Meh. We like the Oscars, have family over every year, cook a big dinner, it's fun. But the awards themselves are what they are. Rarely does the film that I think is the best film of the year win best picture... Her, Whiplash, Room, Lion, Jojo Rabbit, etc. Am glad Coda won last year.
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Whiplash is awesome … havent heard/seen any other movies you listed.
 
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Pope said:
It's been a long time since I've seen a movie at a theater, but I'm so pumped to go see Oppenheimer. It opens July 21 and I'd wager it's going to be the best movie of the year.

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Gonna be between this and Killers of the Flower Moon for Best Picture and Best Director in my opinion.
 
ISUChippewa said:
I mentioned this somewhere else, maybe in a different thread, maybe earlier in this one, but after having seen both "Band of Brothers" and then "The Pacific", and even knowing that those shows for as well done as they were can only be so realistic up to a point, that there is no doubt in my mind that if I could have made the choice at the time as an 18-year old kid in 1942/1943 that I would have signed up for the European theaters of war after seeing how brutal and bloody the island-hopping battles in the Pacific were.
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Late to this thread but:

I have my dad's letters home from Europe and he agrees with you. My dad was in Europe from June at Normandy, Battle of the Bulge, crossing the Rhine etc. Numerous references in his letters to worrying about his little brother in the Pacific and noting he knew it was worse there. Uncle was at Peleliu. Dad cautioned parents about how their youngest would be "changed" by it all. It's some interesting reading. Wish I'd read through them when they were both alive and I could ask more questions. My dad's outfit was going to ship out to Japan but, like in the series Band of Brothers, my dad had enough points to go home and muster out. Well, the unfit got home before he did. They obviously got priority and were back stateside when the war ended. My dad sat around in Europe till the fall of 1945. Other than Heidelberg there wasn't much to see in Germany as it was utterly destroyed.
 
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