I’ve enjoyed a site for a while called “Amazing Wartime Facts from WWII” that talks about several unknown or amazing facts from the world war 2 era. I’m not positive as to actual hard evidence found on the claims, but I would say that even the history books have a lot of “fact” that has very little absolute evidence behind it. With that being said, I have taken a few of the amazing facts and put them below for you to read. I suggest you check out their website by clicking here.
- The US Army had more ships that the US Navy.
- When the US Army landed in North Africa, among the equipment brought ashore were 3 complete Coca Cola bottling plants.
- The first German serviceman killed in the war was killed by the Japanese (China, 1937)The first American serviceman killed was killed by the Russians (Finland 1940).
- At the time of Pearl Harbor, the top US Navy command was called CINCUS (pronounced “sink us”), the shoulder patch of the US Army’s 45th Infantry division was the Swastika, and Hitler’s private train was named “Amerika”. All three were soon changed for PR purposes.
- Most members of the Waffen SS were not German.
- The only nation that Germany declared was on was the USA.
- Among the first “Germans” captured at Normandy were several Koreans. They had been forced to fight for the Japanese Army until they were captured by the Russians and forced to fight for the Russian Army until they were captured by the Germans and forced to fight for the German Army until they were capture by the US Army.
- A number of air crewmen died of farts. (ascending to 20,000 ft. in an un-pressurized aircraft causes intestinal gas to expand 300%!)
-Excerpts taken directly from: http://www.5ad.org/AmazingFacts.htm
Contributed by Ronald Padavan, LTC, CAP MIWG Chief of Staff MSGT, USAF (Ret.) Past President Lodge 143, Fraternal Order of Police As printed in, The Victory Division News. No. 4. December, 2000.
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