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The first German military killed in the war was killed by the Japanese China 1937.
The first American soldier killed was killed by the Russians in Finland in 1940.
80 Soviet males born in 1923 didn t survive World War 2.
The highest-ranking American killed was Lt. Gen. Lesley McNair, killed by the US Army Air Corps.
Between 1939 and 1945, the Allies dropped 3 4 million tons of bombs, an average of about 27 700 tons of bombs per month.
12,000 heavy bombers were shot down in World War 2.
March 2 Allied bomber crews were lost for each plane destroyed.
6 crew bombers were killed for each of the injured.
More than 100,000 Allied bomber crewmen were killed in Europe.
There were 433 Medals of Honor awarded during World War II, 2,219 of them have received after the death of receipiant.
June 6, 1944 to May 8, 1945 Europe, the Allies had 200,000 dead and 550,000 wounded.
The youngest of the US military had Calvin Graham 12 years, USN He was wounded in combat and given a dishonorable discharge for lying about his age Its benefits were restored later by the Act of Congress.
At the time of Pearl Harbor, the high command of the US Navy was called CINCUS gave us flow, the shoulder patch of the 45th Infantry Division of the US Army was the swastika, and the private train Hitler Amerika was named All three were soon changed for PR purposes.
40,000 men served on submarines during World War 2; 30,000 never returned.
More American soldiers died in the Air Corps that the Marine Corps While completing the required 30 missions, your chance of being killed was 71 not the bombers were powerless A B-17 carried 4 tons of bombs to 1 5 tons ammo machine gun the US 8th Air Force shot down 6,098 fighter planes, 1 for every 12,700 shots fired.
Grid of Germany was much more vulnerable than realized estimate is that if only 1 of the bombs dropped on German industry had instead been dropped on power plants, German industry would have collapsed.
In general, there was no such thing as an average fighter pilot, you were either an ace or a target, for example, Japanese ace Hiroyoshi Nishizawa shot down over 80 planes He died while a passenger on a cargo plane.
It was a common practice on fighter planes to load every 5th found with a round plotter to assist in aiming It was a mistake tracers had different ballistics so long range if your tracers hit the target, 80 of your turns were missing worse yet, the tracers instantly told your enemy he was under fire and leadership worst of all was the practice of loading a string of tracers at the end of the belt to tell you that you were ammunition It certainly was not something you wanted to enemy units who stopped using tracers saw their success rate and nearly double their loss rates decline.
When allied armies reached the Rhine, the first thing men did was pee in it was universal enough lowest private to Winston Churchill who made a great show and Gen Patton himself had photographed in the act .
Me-264 German bombers were able to bomb the city of New York, but it wasn t worth it.
A number of flight crew members death crescent waxes to 20,000 feet in an aircraft causes intestinal gas not pressured to 300 extend.
Germany lost 40-45 to their planes during World War 2 to accidents.
The Russians have destroyed more than 500 German aircraft by pushing them into the air, they sometimes erased by walking on the minefields It takes a brave man not to be a hero in the Red Army - Joseph Stalin.
The average German officer position had to be filled again after 9 2 times.
The German Air Force had 22 infantry divisions, two armored divisions and 11 divisions of paratroopers None of them were capable of airborne operations The German Army had paratroops who were able to air operations.
When the US Army landed in North Africa, from onshore facilities were put 3 complete bottling plants of Coca-Cola.
Among the first German prisoners in 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 that they were captured by the Germans and forced to fight for the German army until they are captured by the US military.
The Graf Spee never sank, the attempt failed and scuttle the ship was purchased by the British on board was new German radar system.
One method of destroying tanks of Japan was to bury a very large artillery shells with nose ly exposed When tank came near enough a soldier whack the shell with a lack of weapons hammer not an excuse for the defeat - Lt Gen Mutaguchi.
Following a massive naval bombardment, 35,000 American and Canadian soldiers have taken ground assault on Kiska 21 soldiers were killed in the fight against the fire would have been worse if there had been Japanese on the island .
The MISS ME was an unarmed Piper Cub spotting for US artillery her pilot saw a similar German plane doing the same thing, he plunged the German plan and he and his co-pilot fired their pistols damaging plan German enough that he had to make a forced landing Whereupon they landed and took prisoners Germans We do not know where they put them since the MISS ME had only two seats.
Air attacks caused the March 1 deaths German generals.
By D-Day, the Germans were age 1 5 million rail workers operating 988,000 freight cars and 29,000 used daily.
The only nation that Germany declared war in the summer in the United States.
During the Japanese attack on Hong Kong, British officers objected to Canadian infantrymen taking positions in the officers' mess Not allowed enlisted men.
By D-Day, 35 of all German soldiers had been wounded at least once, 11 twice, three times 6, 2 and 2 four times more than 4 times.
Nuclear physicist Niels Bohr was rescued just in time from German occupied Denmark While the Danish resistance fighters provided against fire, he ran out the back door of his house arrest momentarily to enter a full bottle of beer heavy precious water, he finally reached England still clutching the bottle containing beer maybe some German drank heavy water.
Germany lost 136 generals, which averages out to 1 dead general every 2 weeks.
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