Thread 17922516

What was the most kino WWII campaign?

>>17922516 (OP)
The Eastern Front and I'm tired of pretending anything else is half as kino.

Burma

Easily this one, even if it's not the largest

>>17922516 (OP)
Operation Torch

>>17922516 (OP)
The New Guinea campaign. The utter desperation and suffering by both sides combines with some of the most vicious, close combat. It isn't as well photographed, but the accounts of it are insane.

Second best goes to the Battle of the Atlantic.

>>17922516 (OP)
Operation Typhoon

Come on now. We all know it's the North African Campaign.

>>17922516 (OP)
1. Eastern Front
2. Pacific Front, esp. the three big naval battles, Midway, Phillipine Sea and Leyte Gulf.

>>17922886
Based one final push for Moskau enjoyer.
>>17923611
False.
>>17922556
Somewhat good.
>>17922535
>t. Chindit

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>>17923624
Are u rajput or some other caste of north india.
I am Brahmin that why I am asking.

>>17923622
>muh aircraft carriers
I wish we had more kino naval battles from the big battleship era

>>17923630
I'm Ujjaini Parmar.

>>17923632
>muh big battleships, yay!
All it takes is two (2) accurate dive bombers to send (Your) steel behemoth to the dark, lonely depths of the Mariana Trench.

>>17923632
Carrier battles are way rarer than BB battles.
WW2 remains the only instance we have of carrier fighting each other and engaging near-peer enemy fleets. And much of that fighting occurred in a few battles during 1942-1943, After that it was just one-sided blowout by the US

>>17923648
It took 300+ aircrafts 3 hours to sink the Yamato. BBs are extremely sturdy.
The carriers are the ships most vulnerable to a few bomb hits

>>17922516 (OP)
Nobody ever talks about the Italian campaign, imo It was just North Africa with mountains, no desert and partisans which makes it kino

I got a soft spot for underrated Northern front. Tundra, woods of northernmost Karelia, almost completely undeveloped and untouched wilderness, Soviets behind every tree and stone and German army completely out of their element.
Everything I've read of it feels like absolutely miserable shitshow on both sides where war plans were usually replaced with vibe leadership due to poor intel and recon, and it sucked so much that Germans would never try to take Murmansk or to disrupt the Murmansk railway again.

>Operation Silver Fox did not achieved its sophisticated goals. During the operation the Germans and Finns had taken some ground at both fronts, but overall the operation failed in terms of its strategic intentions, as neither Murmansk nor the Murmansk railway at Kandalaksha were captured. The closest the German-Finnish force came to disrupting the Murmansk railway was east of Kestenga, where they were about 20 km (12 mi) away from it, while Dietl's force in the north did not even come close to approaching Murmansk. The German forces, especially the SS-troops, were unsuited, ill-trained, and unprepared for Arctic warfare and therefore made little progress while suffering heavy casualties. On the other hand, Finnish units, especially the 6th Division of the III Finnish Corps, made good progress and inflicted heavy casualties on the Soviet forces

>>17924178
>imo It was just North Africa with mountains
North Africa had mountains too. But that's a pretty reductive way of looking at it. You also had Poles, Brazilians, and even the ex-Soviet soldiers in the Wehrmacht all in the same place.

>>17922516 (OP)
The most memed is the western front. The most epic was the eastern front. The most interesting the Pacific war. However the most kino by far was the battle of the Atlantic. Many flicks are made about the western front as well as north Africa, Pacific and Italy, however they tend to be slop, the Atlantic however almost always has the most kinocinematic qualities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ETzfgjJZRs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtUw_JnmYQ0

>>17922516 (OP)
Eastern Front

The nighttime naval battles around Guadalcanal were insane, with the IJN btfoing the USN with Long Lance torpedoes and the U.S. countering with radar, Henderson Field and some lucky breaks. It was really the last time the Japanese could slug it out toe to toe with the USN. Chaotic brawls in the dark, lots of friendly fire damage, and at one point an American destroyer and a Japanese BB within pistol range. A lot more kino than the meme carrier battles. James Hornfischer’s Neptune’s Inferno is an excellent book on the subject as is his account of the Battle Off Samar in Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, another bonkers surface fight.

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