Subject: – Old Age and Wisdom
Quite a story…memories!
World War II Facts accompanied by appropriate photo for each fact. Have not seen these before.
For the history buffs. Some of our fathers were involved.
Some very interesting World War II Facts. Many you would not believe or were even aware of.
The first German serviceman killed in the war was killed by the Japanese.
Over 100,000 Allied bomber crewmen were killed over Europe.
More U.S. Servicemen died in the Air Corps than the Marine Corps.
Polish Catholic midwife Stanisawa Leszczyñska delivered 3,000 babies at the Auschwitz
Concentration camp during the Holocaust in occupied Poland.
In World War II, British soldiers got a ration of three sheets of toilet paper a day.
Americans got 22.
In 1941, more than three million cars were manufactured in the United States
Only 139 more were made during the entire war.
Four of every five German soldiers killed in the war died on the Eastern Front.
Only 20 percent of the males born in the Soviet Union in 1923 survived the war.
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 until after he was wounded. (Unbelievable)
Only one out of every four men serving on U-boats survived.
The Siege of Stalingrad resulted in more Russian deaths (military and civilian)
Than the United States and Britain sustained (combined) in all of World War II.
To avoid using the German sounding name ‘hamburger’ during World War II, Americans
Used the name ‘Liberty Steak.’
Adolf Hitler’s nephew, William Hitler, served in the US Navy during World War II!!!
Adolph Hitler and Henry Ford each kept a framed picture of the other on his desk.
During World War II, the largest Japanese spy ring was actually located in Mexico.
The mortality rate for Russian POWs in German camps was 85 percent.
Had it been necessary for a third atom bomb, the city targeted would have been Tokyo.
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.
Total casualties for World War II totaled between 50 – 70 million people,
80 percent of which came from 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.
Veterans are people who, at one point in their lives, wrote a blank check payable to the United States
Of America, for an amount up to and including their lives. Remember ALL of our Vets…
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“America will never be destroyed from the outside.If we falter and loose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
When you listen to this, remember… the commentary was broadcast 52 years> ago on April 3, 1965. It’s short… less than three minutes. You will be amazed…and mad that it’s come to this!
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