\nI am not sure if these tidbits are true, but they sure are interesting!<\/p>\n
\tQUIRKS OF WW2 HISTORY
\n\tYou might enjoy this from Col D. G. Swinford, USMC, Ret and history buff.
\n\tYou would really have to dig deep to assemble this kind of historical info.<\/p>\n
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\t1. The first German serviceman killed in WW II was killed by the Japanese
\n\t(China, 1937), the first American serviceman killed was killed by the
\n\tRussians (Finland 1940); and the highest ranking American killed was Lt. Gen
\n\tLesley McNair, killed by the US Army Air Corps. So much for allies.<\/p>\n
\t2. The youngest US serviceman was 12 year old Calvin Graham, USN. He was
\n\twounded and given a Dishonorable Discharge for lying about his age. His
\n\tbenefits were later restored by act of Congress.<\/p>\n
\t3. At the time of Pearl Harbor, the top US Navy command was called CINCUS
\n\t(pronounced ‘sink us’), the shoulder patch of the US Army’s 45th Infantry
\n\tdivision was the Swastika, and Hitler’s private train was named ‘Amerika.’
\n\tAll three were soon changed for PR purposes.<\/p>\n
\t4. More US servicemen died in the Air Corps than the Marine Corps. While
\n\tcompleting the required 30 missions, your chance of being killed was 71%.<\/p>\n
\t5. Generally speaking, there was no such thing as an average fighter pilot.
\n\tYou were either an ace, or a target. For instance, Japanese Ace Hiroyoshi
\n\tNishizawa shot down over 80 planes. He died while a passenger on a cargo
\n\tplane.<\/p>\n
\t6. It was a common practice on fighter planes to load every 5th round with a
\n\ttracer round to aid in aiming. This was a mistake. Tracers had different
\n\tballistics so (at long range) if your tracers were hitting the target 80% of
\n\tyour rounds were missing. Worse yet tracers instantly told your enemy he was
\n\tunder fire and from which direction. Worst of all, it was the practice to
\n\tload a string of tracers at the end of the belt to tell when you were out of
\n\tammo. This was definitely not something you wanted to tell the enemy! Units
\n\tthat stopped using tracers saw their success rate nearly double and their
\n\tloss rate go down.<\/p>\n
\t7. When allied armies reached the Rhine, the first thing men did was pee in
\n\tit. This was pretty universal from the lowest private to Winston Churchill
\n\t(who made a big show of it) and Gen. Patton who had himself photographed in
\n\tthe act. <\/p>\n
\t8. German Me-264 bombers were capable of bombing New York City… but they
\n\tdecided it wasn’t worth the effort.<\/p>\n
\t9. German submarine U-120 was sunk by a malfunctioning toilet.<\/p>\n
\t10. Among the first ‘Germans’ captured at Normandy were several
\n\tKoreans. They had been forced to fight for the Japanese Army until
\n\tthey were
\n\tcaptured by the Russians and forced to fight for the Russian Army
\n\tuntil they were captured by the Germans and forced to fight for the
\n\tGerman Army until they
\n\twere captured by the US Army.<\/p>\n
\t11. Following a massive naval bombardment, 35,000 United States and
\n\tCanadian troops stormed ashore at Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands. 21
\n\ttroops were killed in the assault on the island. It could have been worse if
\n\tthere had been any Japanese on the island.<\/p>\n
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