What types of troops get the worst treatment if captured?

Factual Questions
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A morbid sort of question, but…on the battlefield, I’ve often heard that Snipers and Flamethrower-operators (not that there are many of the latter, these days) are usually subject to much harsher treatment by their enemies if captured, if they’re even allowed to surrender at all, due to the kind of carnage they inflict.

First off, is this true? And second-if it is, are there any other types of troops that get singled out like if captured?

Well, thanks for your patience,
Ranchoth

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The ones we can’t prove they’ve captured.

3

Should be snipers. There’s something about a sharpshooter picking you off one by one that’s different than say a firefight. At least, that’s what I’ve been told by combat vets. Most of 'em WW2 or Korean War vets

4

WAG: I imagine intel officers would be subject to a fair amount of interrogation, and torture depending on who the enemy is.

5

In WWII, Hitler issued a command order that all commandos were to be killed.

http://www.wwiitech.net/main/germany/archives/hitlerscommandoorder/

6

US bomber pilots have been given a rough time of it in WW2 Germany, WW2 Japan, & Vietnam.

In the Gulf War & Bosnia, fighter-bomber & attack aircraft pilots got the same treatment.

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US bomber piolts & crews have been given a rough time of it in WW2 Germany, WW2 Japan, & Vietnam.

In the Gulf War & Bosnia, fighter-bomber & attack aircraft pilots got the same treatment.

8

I think that I would abuse any POW being that their job ultimately is to kill me, regardless of their specific duties. I realize that I wouldn’t want to be abused if I was a POW, but I’m sure that as an American, if captured in a hostile country, I would get tortured for sure.

I wouldn’t torture anyone, mind you, just beat on them with the butt of my rifle and maybe kick them in the face a few times.

9

David McCulloch’s bio of Harry Truman tells how in WWI Truman’s artillery battery came close to running out of ammunition, without time limber up and withdraw before the Germans overran their position. All they could do is wait and see if the guys they’s just been pouring shrapnel into were in the mood to take prisoners. I’ve read that this situation is where the expression “stand by your guns” comes from.