BURIED DEEP DEEP IN THE RECORDS!!!!!!<\/p>\n
You would really have to dig deep to get this kind of ringside
\nseat to history:<\/p>\n
1.The first German serviceman killed in WW II was killed by the
\nJapanese (China, 1937), the first American serviceman killed was
\nkilled by the Russians (Finland 1940); highest ranking American
\nkilled was Lt Gen Lesley McNair, killed by the US Army Air Corps.
\nSo much for allies.<\/p>\n
2. The youngest US serviceman was 12 year old Calvin Graham,
\nUSN. He was wounded and given a Dishonorable Discharge for lying
\nabout his age. His benefits were later restored by act of Congress.<\/p>\n
3. At the time of Pearl Harbor , the top US Navy command was
\ncalled CINCUS (pronounced ‘sink us’), the shoulder patch of the US
\nArmy’s 45th Infantry division was the Swastika, and Hitler’s
\nprivate train was named ‘ Amerika.’ All three were soon changed for
\nPR purposes.!<\/p>\n
4. More US servicemen died in the Air Corps than the Marine
\nCorps. While completing the required 30 missions, your chance of
\nbeing killed was 71%.<\/p>\n
5. Generally speaking, there was no such thing as an average
\nfighter pilot. You were either an ace or a target. For instance,
\nJapanese Ace Hiroyoshi Nishizawa shot down over 80 planes. He died
\nwhile a passenger on a cargo plane.<\/p>\n
6. It was a common practice on fighter planes to load every 5th
\nround with a tracer round to aid in aiming. This was a mistake.
\nTracers had different ballistics so (at long range) if your tracers
\nwere hitting the target 80% of your rounds were missing. Worse yet
\ntracers instantly told your enemy he was under fire and from which
\ndirection. Worst of all was the practice of loading a string of tracers at the end of the belt to tell you that you were out of
\nammo. This was definitely not something you wanted to tell the
\nenemy. Units that stopped using tracers saw their success rate
\nnearly double and their loss rate go down.<\/p>\n
7. When allied armies reached the Rhine , the first thing men did
\nwas pee in it. This was pretty universal from the lowest private
\nto Winston Churchill (who made a big show of it) and Gen. Patton
\n(who had himself photographed in the act).<\/p>\n
8. German Me-264 bombers were capable of bombing New York City
\nbut they decided it wasn’t worth the effort.<\/p>\n
9. German submarine U-120 was sunk by a malfunctioning toilet.<\/p>\n
10. Among the first ‘Germans’ captured at Normandy were several
\nKoreans. They had been forced to fight for the Japanese Army until
\nthey were captured by the Russians and forced to fight for the Russian Army until they were captured by the Germans and forced to
\nfight for the German Army until they were captured by the US Army.<\/p>\n
11. Following a massive naval bombardment, 35,000 United
\nStates and Canadian troops stormed ashore at Kiska, in the Aleutian
\nIslands . 21 troops were killed in the assault on the island. It
\ncould have been worse if there had been any Japanese on the island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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