21 rare and weird facts about WW2 - Fenelon...
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21 rare and weird facts about WW2
We’ve all seen “Saving Private Ryan” and “Band of Brothers,” but here’s
a list of facts from World War 2 that you probably didn’t know:
1. The first German serviceman killed in the war was killed by the
Japanese.
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2. The first American serviceman killed was killed by the Russians.
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3. Over 100,000 Allied bomber crewmen were killed over Europe.
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4. More U.S. servicemen died in the Air Corps that the Marine Corps.
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5. Polish Catholic midwife Stanisława Leszczyńska delivered 3,000
babies at the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust in
occupied Poland.
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6. In World War II, British soldiers got a ration of three sheets of
toilet paper a day. Americans got 22.
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7. In 1941, more than three million cars were manufactured in the
United States. Only 139 more were made during the entire war.
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8. Four of every five German soldiers killed in the war died on the
Eastern Front.
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9. Only 20 percent of the males born in the Soviet Union in 1923
survived the war.
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10. In World War II, the youngest serviceman in the United States
military was Calvin Graham – age 12. Graham lied about his age
when he enlisted in the US Navy. His real age was not discovered
after he was wounded.
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11. Only one out of every four men serving on U-boats survived.
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12. The Siege of Stalingrad resulted in more Russian deaths (military
and civilian) then the United States and Britain sustained (combined)
in all of World War II.
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13. To avoid using the German sounding name ‘hamburger’ during
World War II, Americans used the name ‘Liberty Steak.’
14. Adolf Hitler’s nephew, William Hitler, served in the US Navy
during World War II.
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15. Adolph Hitler and Henry Ford each kept a framed picture of the
other on his desk.
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16. During World War II, the largest Japanese spy ring was actually
located in Mexico.
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17. The mortality rate for POWs in Russian camps was 85 percent.
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18. The first bomb dropped on Berlin by the Allies killed the only
elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
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19. Had it been necessary for a third atom bomb, the city targeted
would have been Tokyo.
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20. An Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer, who fought in
World War II, Hiroo Onoda never surrendered in 1945. Until 1974,
for almost 30 years, he held his position in the Philippines. His former
commander traveled from Japan to personally issue orders relieving
him from duty in 1974.
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21. Total casualties for World War II totaled between 50 – 70 million
people, 80 percent of which came form only four countries – Russia,
China, Germany and Poland. Over 50 percent of the casualties were
civilians, with the majority of those being women and children.