[cyberia]

Tom H has asked me twice to start this thread and I'm finally getting around to it.

Trench Humor is basically wartime soldier jokes. A phenomenon of human nature where while even under fire someone is capable of cracking a joke and a smile.

I'm sure some of you have heard them from relatives who served.

Just it keep WWII related, keep it clean and don't post any comments offensive to another nationality. That may narrow it down, but those are the rules.

I'll start off with one of two my father told me that were passed around in the Der Kessel at Stalingrad. Hard to believe, but this joke was still making the rounds during the final days of fighting:

Two Wehrmacht officers huddled in the ruins...

Hauptmann-"I heard last night von Paulus was given an order directly from der fuhurer."
Leutnant-"Really, what was Hitler's orders."
Hauptmann-"He wants us to attack the Russians at the center of their front."
Leutnant-"My God! How did von Paulus respond?"
Hauptmann-"He asked Hitler which front. They have four of them."

[Holly6]

One of Ivan's (avatar) standards (He, of course, was bomber comand:

Up in the blue, in WWII flew the hottest piot in the Corps. From out of the sun where they live dived a hundred fierce Mitsubishis. The hot pilot went out of his head. His eyes bugged out and, screaming into the slipstream, he performed impossible feats. Soon 75 Japanese were down and the others were fleeing from the mad American.

The hot pilot, still out of his head, came roaring down on the nearest field. He leaped from his plane, pushed aside all before him, tore in the operations tent and screamed at the man behind the desk: "Listen, it was crazy!! A hundred Zeros and I shot down seventy-five of them. The others ran away scared. I was the greatest. I couldn't do anything wrong!"

The man behind the desk looked at him for a moment from under the brim of a Japanese officer's cap before speaking: "But you made just one slight mistake."

This post has been edited by cyberia: October 04, 2008 - 11:15 PM
Reason for edit: Edited at OP's request

[Holly6]

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[Holly6]

Name the tank: :-)


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[Freightshaker]

Mauldin huh? I got some Willie and Joe lying around here...

[kentek]

My own favorite Mauldin.



and, of course, Willie and Joe.


"Able Fox Five to Able Fox. I got a target but ya gotta be patient."

[Freightshaker]

kentek said:

My own favorite Mauldin.

and, of course, Willie and Joe.


"Able Fox Five to Able Fox. I got a target but ya gotta be patient."

This will eventually be a diorama I'm going to build.

[cyberia]

Two pilots, an Irishman in the RAF and an American Bomber pilot, drinking in an officer's club in England during the war:

Irishman-"I was comin' back over the channel and some fokker came out of the sun and shot me into the drink."

American-"What kind of Fokker?"

Irishman-"Alls I know was he was flying a Messerschmitt."

[cyberia]

Freightshaker said:

kentek said:

My own favorite Mauldin.

and, of course, Willie and Joe.


"Able Fox Five to Able Fox. I got a target but ya gotta be patient."

This will eventually be a diorama I'm going to build.

This is the first cartoon I think of whenever I think of these guys. Classic!!!

[Tom Houlihan]

Freightshaker, I've had the same plan for years!!!

[cyberia]

This story is derived from an actual newspaper account from the Bournemouth Evening Echo after the war.

A Mrs. Irene Graham of Thorpe Avenue, Boscombe, England, was friends with the commandant of the local POW camp. As a result a prisoner, who was an accomplished hortaculturalist prior to the war, was sent once each week to tend the gardens of the Graham estate.

He was repatriated back to Germany at the end of 1945, she recalled to a reporter. "He'd always seemed a nice friendly chap, not a fanatic but rather a man with a wicked sense humour." she said.

"Which was later evident," she continued. "Because when the crocuses came up in the middle of our lawn in February 1946, they spelt out, 'Heil Hitler'."