FabSwingers.com forum: Interesting Facts about World War 2/ Hitler!

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over a year ago

Hiroo Onada a Japanese intelligence officer only surrendered in 1974 he held his position in the Philippines untill his former commander relieved him from Duty

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Had it been necessary for a third atom bomb the city targeted would have been Tokyo

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

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

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

In World War II the youngest servicemen in the United States military was Calvin Graham aged 12 he lied about his age when he enlisted in the US Navy his age was not discovered until wounded

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

in World War II British soldiers a ration of 3 sheets of toilet paper a day, the Americans got 22

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Adolf Hitler lived in a homeless shelter in Vienna

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By *uHorny1Man
over a year ago

Cannock

In the film "The Longest Day" Rochard Todd (of Dambusters fame) played Major John Howard, who commanded the operation to capture Pegasus Bridge.

It's acknowledged as being incredibly accurate, as Todd was actually part of this operation in real life- he refused to film bits if they weren't accurate.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"In the film "The Longest Day" Rochard Todd (of Dambusters fame) played Major John Howard, who commanded the operation to capture Pegasus Bridge.

It's acknowledged as being incredibly accurate, as Todd was actually part of this operation in real life- he refused to film bits if they weren't accurate."

Except for there were no explosives placed on the bridge. My uncle was an engineer who landed there .

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

In Burma in 1945, the British surrounded Japanese troops in a swamp. Overnight, crocodiles ate many of the Japanese. A few terrified survivors surrendered to the British next day

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Italians had a good heavy bomber that they offered to the germans.if they had took it they could have bombed the Russians factory's.

The German jet plane was already to go into action. But Hitler wanted a fighter bomber. So it had to be redesigned. So it was out to late to play a role in the war

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Polish Catholic midwife Stanislawa Leszczynska delivered 3,000 babies at the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust in occupied Poland.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

In the battle of Britain the German 109s only had around 20 mins of flying time over London.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Flight Sergeant Nicholas Alkemade who was a rear gunner in RAF Avro Lancaster bombers survived a fall from 18000 feet without a parachute. he suffered only a sprained leg

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

In ww1 over 35.000 Irish troops died. But only around 5000 in ww2 good news

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

After the Pearl Harbour attack, Canada declared war on Japan before the United States did

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ford and General Motors of America supplied many of the engines for troop carriers, lorries and various other vehicles for the Germans.

Rockerfella's Standard Oil company (esso) supplied fuel for the luftwaffe.

Communications company AT&T helped set up the German phone lines across Europe.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

The German city Konstanz kept all its lights on at night rather than obeying the blackout. It worked! Allied planes thought it was part of Switzerland

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By *rontier PsychiatristMan
over a year ago

Coventry

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By *ibbyhunterCouple
over a year ago

keighley

The Nazi uniform was made by Hugo Boss'

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By *rontier PsychiatristMan
over a year ago

Coventry

Sorry, terrible spelling, try again.

Ironically the NAZI's had a unit called the Indian Legion (latter trasferred to the SS) made up of Indian troops. They saw combat against Allied Forces in France and Italy.

They don't call it a World War for nothing.

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By *ecretpantyTV/TS
over a year ago

lisburn

I think the Italians had a hand grenade that had 2 pins which both needed pulled to work.The Germans captured a hall off these but didn't know about the second pin and when they through them at the Italians they picked them up and pulled the second pin and through them back!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Soviets trained dogs to run under tanks with the engine running. In battle, they'd strap a mine to the dogs and let them loose on German tanks.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Although many top Nazis including Adolf were Austrian, the allies decreed it was the Prussians who were mainly responsible for the Reich and two world wars. Prussia was formerly abolished in 1947 with the land split between Poland and the USSR.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When Germany invaded Czechoslovakia in 1938, so did Poland grabbing a disputed bit along the border.

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By *rumpyMcFuckNuggetMan
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity

My Dad was born 4 days before the start on 28th August 1939

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lithuanian, Estonian and Latvian partisans known as the Forest Brothers stayed active against Soviet forces until 1956.

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By *uHorny1Man
over a year ago

Cannock

"In the film "The Longest Day" Rochard Todd (of Dambusters fame) played Major John Howard, who commanded the operation to capture Pegasus Bridge.

It's acknowledged as being incredibly accurate, as Todd was actually part of this operation in real life- he refused to film bits if they weren't accurate.

Except for there were no explosives placed on the bridge. My uncle was an engineer who landed there ."

Fair enough- I'm not going to argue with you!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

the founder of Adidas Adolf Dassler was a Nazi.

His brother Rudolph Dazzler went on to found the sports company Puma

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hilter was a budding artist and was turned down by Vienna art academy. Even tho they deemed his buildings and landscapes were good enough, his people were not

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Hitler declared that Germany would return the expropriated lands back to the natives of America(ie the red Indians)

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Nazi Germany ran the first anti smoking campaign and didn't allow soldiers to smoke.

They were also the first to link smoking to lung cancer

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Winston Churchill said 'never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few'.

ever since the British pilots who took part in the Battle of Britain have been referred to as 'the few'.

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By *erriAnneTV/TS
over a year ago

The shire

"Had it been necessary for a third atom bomb the city targeted would have been Tokyo"

There were actually 12 cities targeted. Hiroshima was only the first because of the weather on the day. Had it been cloudy then it wouldn't have been selected

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

More Germans died 1944 to 1946 than 1938 to beginning 1944.

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By *erriAnneTV/TS
over a year ago

The shire

"In Burma in 1945, the British surrounded Japanese troops in a swamp. Overnight, crocodiles ate many of the Japanese. A few terrified survivors surrendered to the British next day "

I'm sure there was around 3 thousand when they went in but only a few hundred survived.

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By *erriAnneTV/TS
over a year ago

The shire

"The Nazi uniform was made by Hugo Boss'"

It was the ss uniforms. Not all Germans were Nazis.

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By *erriAnneTV/TS
over a year ago

The shire

"the founder of Adidas Adolf Dassler was a Nazi.

His brother Rudolph Dazzler went on to found the sports company Puma"

They both claimed that the other was a nazi party member and went their separate ways. They started by helping their mum make ballet shoes then they began making boots for the army. Adolf's nickname was adi hence the name for his company.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The British developed the jet engine before WW2 and before the Germans (using the British design). However Germany ploughed more into development and were able to get jets into active service before the end of the war.

Had we thrown as much effort into development, then we may have had jets in the air for the Battle of Britain

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By *hilloutMan
over a year ago

All over the place! Northwesr, , Southwest

The american P-51, german Fw 190 and the russian La-7 were the epitome of propeller driven fighter planes. Brilliant pieces of engineering.

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By *erriAnneTV/TS
over a year ago

The shire

The p51 was based on the spitfire

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The transfer of Germans from the east to west 1945 to 1949 was the largest transfer of a population of all time. Over 11 million people were displaced .

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Hermann Goering developed an addiction to morphine

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Royal Dutch Shell sold oil to Germany to help fuel the Nazi war effort.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Henry Ford recieved compensation after his German Ford plant was partly destroyed by allied bombing raids.

The Opel Blitz was far more productive financially than the Beetle for the German war effort. Opel to this day is a subsiduary of the American car giant General Motors.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Saving Private Ryan was loosely based on fact.

Since the American Civil War there was the sole survivor policy.

If all the male children were serving and all but one got killed the sole survivor would be sent home to continue the family line.

In the film Matt Damon’s character wanted to stay behind and defend the bridge with his comrades.

In real life the 101st Airborne soldier who “Ryan” was loosely based on when told he was going home due to the sole survivor policy was happy to be going home and ran his comrades telling them all about it!!

Quite a few paratroopers felt resentful of him being able to go home early.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Stalin liked to watch John Wayne movies but not nudity

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Hitler was 5ft 8 Stalin only 5ft 4

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By *hilloutMan
over a year ago

All over the place! Northwesr, , Southwest

One million civilians died during the 2+ year long siege of Leningrad. Most from starvation.

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By *etitesaraTV/TS
over a year ago

rochdale

My Grandfather was a Bombardier at Cassino & Anzio during the Italian Campaign.

When Spike Milligan appeared on TV during some Royal Variety Show in the 70's he exploded, "it's that malingering b*****d Gunner Millington!"

Apparently Milligan had been in the next battery along when he cracked up due to combat stress.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hitler only had one ball

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By *r.gambinoMan
over a year ago

East Midlands

"Hitler only had one ball"

He was secretly Jewish

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By *erriAnneTV/TS
over a year ago

The shire

"Hitler only had one ball"

The other is in the Albert hall

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hitler bombed our chippy

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Hitler only had one ball

The other is in the Albert hall

I think his medical records states he had the standard 2( or is it 3)!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Major "stinky" McTavish of the Gordon highlanders received the Victoria cross for carrying his wounded elephant under heavy machine gun fire during the attack on Singapore

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

During the Battle of Stalingrad, German soldiers suffered more casualties attempting to take one apartment building

(Pavlov's house) then they did taking the city of Paris

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

American company Brown Brothers Harramon were partly involved in the laying of rail tracks in to Auschwitz...

Prescot Bush (grandad of george dubya) had business intrests in Auschwitz

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

There was a recorded kill using a bow and arrow in World War II, by British officer Jack Churchill who carried a longbow bagpipes and Scottish broadsword into battle

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

In 1918 Hitler came into the Crossfire of a British private named Henry Tandey, seeing that he was not able to defend himself Tandey did not fire his weapon at Hitler.

Hitler nodded his head in gratitude.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Hiroo Onada a Japanese intelligence officer only surrendered in 1974 he held his position in the Philippines untill his former commander relieved him from Duty"

Insane isn't it

Can you imagine surviving that long unassisted. Animal mode.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"In Burma in 1945, the British surrounded Japanese troops in a swamp. Overnight, crocodiles ate many of the Japanese. A few terrified survivors surrendered to the British next day "

Oh my god that's horrific. I'd have given up straight away

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"There was a recorded kill using a bow and arrow in World War II, by British officer Jack Churchill who carried a longbow bagpipes and Scottish broadsword into battle"

Say whaaaat

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"In 1918 Hitler came into the Crossfire of a British private named Henry Tandey, seeing that he was not able to defend himself Tandey did not fire his weapon at Hitler.

Hitler nodded his head in gratitude."

I love that. Shown compassion in the heat of battle. Yet looked what he turned into. You'd have thought he'd have learnt something about hatred on that fateful day.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Werner von brawn (spelling?) along with other nazi scientists were spared the Nurenburg trials and instead transported to America where they set to work on the space program. All making huge salaries and lived the life of luxury... the men that destroyed a large chunk of london with V1 and V2 flying bombs were among the men who got well rewarded for furthering american technology....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Many of Churchill's famous speeches on radio broadcasts were not made by Winston at all. On numerous occasions Churchill was too d*unk to speak so a man called Norman Shelley (Larry the lamb from toytown) who was the best mimic of Churchill's voice made them in his place.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

To combat Soviet partisans the Germans recruited a division of convicted poachers. They thought they would be ideal for tracking the partisans in the woods of the Soviet Union. Under the command of the sadistic Oskar Dirlewanger,this penal unit went on to commit some of the worst crimes under the Nazis.

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By *aul DeUther-OneMan
over a year ago

Sussex

By breaking the Nazis' Enigma code,the allies had clear advance knowledge of the invasion if Crete. S I as not to alert the enemy that their messages were being read, generals arranged the defence of the island as if they were expecting a seaborne invasion. By sacrificing Crete and the garrison there, allies' knowledge of Enigma was kept secret far into the war.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Hitler:

"Our strength lies in our quickness and in our brutality, Genghis Khan had sent millions of women and children into death knowingly and with a light heart.. history sees in him only the great founder of states".

The Obersalzburg speech

given to Wehrmacht commanders at his home on August 22nd 1939 a week before the invasion of Poland .

(It showed then his intention to carry out planned genocide)

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

a Korean soldier during World War II was enrolled into the Japanese army eventually captured and made to fight for the Red Army later captured again forced to fight for Germany (the Wehrmacht) making him a veteran of 3 armies

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Coconut juice -or water inside,is not only sterile but has the same electrolytic balance as human blood which enabled Medics in the Pacific Theatre to use it as an emergency substitute for plasma

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The British used black propaganda including rumour. They made out that they had a method of turning the sea aflame should a German invasion force try to land. People swore they had found blackened bodies on the beaches from a probing force incinerated by the flames. In occupied Europe people used to pretend to warm their hands next to German soldiers sat at cafes and to this day some people still believe it was actually used on a German commando force.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

The invasion of Okinawa was larger than that of d-day.

approximately 40000 American troops from army and Navy landed on Okinawa during the first day of invasion .24,000 U.S,British and Canadian troops landed in Normandy on D-Day

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By *sLittleRedRidingHoodWoman
over a year ago

Magical Forrest

Love this

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Stalin killed an estimated 4 million Ukrainians, through starvation and famine

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

the term "to go commando" stems from the fact commandos din,nt wear knickers during ww2

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Stalin killed an estimated 4 million Ukrainians, through starvation and famine"

3 he killed by sitting on their face

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Hitler did not like to be seen without a coat/jacket

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Hitler did not like to be seen without a coat/jacket"

or a jacket potatoe

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Although Hitler shouted and ranted and raved in tempers and speeches,

Stalin never raised his voice

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Hitler did not like to be seen without a coat/jacket"

or knickers its why he never joined the german commando unit

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hitler's favourite band was Spandau ballet

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By *hilloutMan
over a year ago

All over the place! Northwesr, , Southwest

"Although Hitler shouted and ranted and raved in tempers and speeches,

Stalin never raised his voice"

He didn't need to. One look was all it took!

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By *illing2016Man
over a year ago

Stourbridge

"The american P-51, german Fw 190 and the russian La-7 were the epitome of propeller driven fighter planes. Brilliant pieces of engineering."

Don't forget the Hurricane and Spitfire

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Although Hitler shouted and ranted and raved in tempers and speeches,

Stalin never raised his voice

He didn't need to. One look was all it took!

yes true.

.The scariest 'looking' to me was Himmler, imagine him staring at you when he was in power

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

During Operation Chariot, the raid on St Nazaire, March 1942, the British used the destroyer, Campbeltown to ram the large dry dock located there. This was to make the dock unusable for large battleships like the Tirpitz. The Germans halted the raid and considered the dock gate with the ship wedged in it minor damage. However, packed with hidden timed explosives , Campbeltown was waiting to go off. With hundreds of Nazi officers, and men examining the wreck, Campbeltown eventually exploded killing around 360 Nazis and rendering the dock unusable for the rest of the war.

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By *illing2016Man
over a year ago

Stourbridge

"There was a recorded kill using a bow and arrow in World War II, by British officer Jack Churchill who carried a longbow bagpipes and Scottish broadsword into battle"

This was during the retreat to Dunkirk I believe.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Hitler did not like to be seen without a coat/jacket

or a jacket potatoe"

hitler hated typos

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Hitler did not like to be seen without a coat/jacket

or a jacket potatoe

hitler hated typos"

and despised people that pretended they did a typo

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By *hilloutMan
over a year ago

All over the place! Northwesr, , Southwest

"The american P-51, german Fw 190 and the russian La-7 were the epitome of propeller driven fighter planes. Brilliant pieces of engineering.

Don't forget the Hurricane and Spitfire"

Unforgivable oversight

brilliant in 1942/3 but greatly surpassed by war's end.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The Soviets trained dogs to run under tanks with the engine running. In battle, they'd strap a mine to the dogs and let them loose on German tanks."

Never worked the dogs got scared or ran under Russian tanks.that they where training them on.

More Russians was killed then germans

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Hitler professed to be an animal lover, he had a German shepherd called Blondi.

In the final days in the bunker Hitler tested a cyanide capsule out on Blondi..which killed her. Hitler was inconsolable.

Hitler's nurse later said that the people in the bunker were more upset about the death of Blondie than they were about Eva braun's suicide

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

After the occupation of Kharkov in October 1941 the Germans occupied many major buildings as HQs etc. Unknown to them, the Soviets had rigged them with radio controlled explosives. These were set off once the Germans had settled in resulting in hundreds of casualties.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I.B.M helped create the system that the germans used to catalogue the jews and send them to the ghettos and then into the camps

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Eva Hitler was Hitler's wife for less than 40 hours

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hitler's body ended up under a parade ground in Magdeburg. In 1970 the Soviets feared a reunited Germany so had it dug up, burnt and flushed away.

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By *ellbound_GhoulwarpWoman
over a year ago

Fifth Circle of Hell

"Werner von brawn (spelling?) along with other nazi scientists were spared the Nurenburg trials and instead transported to America where they set to work on the space program. All making huge salaries and lived the life of luxury... the men that destroyed a large chunk of london with V1 and V2 flying bombs were among the men who got well rewarded for furthering american technology...."

Quote from the TV show Archer

None of those things would have been possible without the Nazi scientists we brought back after World War II.

Cyril: The Nazis invented Neil Armstrong?

Malory: Rockets! Which put him on the moon. After the war ended, we were snatching up kraut scientists like hotcakes. You don't believe me? walk into NASA sometime and yell "Heil Hitler!" WOOP! They all jump straight up!

Lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Prescot Bush grandfather of George Bush, Traded with the Nazi's during world War Two. His Bank even had its assets seized by the US Govt because he was caught doing it. The Bush political dynasty was most likely funded of the back of Nazi gold and slave labour.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Quote from the TV show Archer

None of those things would have been possible without the Nazi scientists we brought back after World War II.

Cyril: The Nazis invented Neil Armstrong?

Malory: Rockets! Which put him on the moon.After the war ended, we were snatching up kraut scientists like hotcakes. You don't believe me? walk into NASA sometime and yell "Heil Hitler!" WOOP! They all jump straight up!

Lol

known as project paperclip

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

"During the Battle of Stalingrad, German soldiers suffered more casualties attempting to take one apartment building

(Pavlov's house) then they did taking the city of Paris"
someone rang a bell and they kept fighting

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By *otlovefun42Couple
over a year ago

Costa Blanca Spain...

"Henry Ford recieved compensation after his German Ford plant was partly destroyed by allied bombing raids.

The Opel Blitz was far more productive financially than the Beetle for the German war effort. Opel to this day is a subsiduary of the American car giant General Motors."

That would have been correct last year.

However Opel is now owned by PSA (French)

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By *arlomaleMan
over a year ago

darlington

"Hiroo Onada a Japanese intelligence officer only surrendered in 1974 he held his position in the Philippines untill his former commander relieved him from Duty"
now that’s commitment

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By *nabelle21Woman
over a year ago

B38

Carrier pigeons received the Dickin medal. And were attributed for turning the tide on what could have been an awful defeat

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"In ww1 over 35.000 Irish troops died. But only around 5000 in ww2 good news "

And they were deemed deserters for joining the british forces as ireland decided not to join the allies against the nazis.

The IRA collaborated with the nazis and conducted several terrorist bombings in the uk during the war.

They wished to help the nazis invade via ireland however the german inteligence services deemed them too unreliable to be worth the effort or resources of any major support.

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over a year ago

"The Soviets trained dogs to run under tanks with the engine running. In battle, they'd strap a mine to the dogs and let them loose on German tanks."

The lroblem being they had been trained with russian tanks....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"There was a recorded kill using a bow and arrow in World War II, by British officer Jack Churchill who carried a longbow bagpipes and Scottish broadsword into battle

Say whaaaat"

Theres a simple history episode about him on youtube dude was a fucking nutter

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

In Stalingrad some desperate German soldiers were reported as holding out for weeks after the official surrender.

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By *otlovefun42Couple
over a year ago

Costa Blanca Spain...

Franco's Spain wanted to come into the war on the German side.

However Churchill's threat to take the Canary islands on day one if they did forced Hitler to refuse Franco's support.

Hitler knew that Spain couldn't defend them against the British and had no desire to commit German troops there, so he much preferred the Canary's to stay neutral rather than fall into British hands.

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By *oo32Man
over a year ago

tipperary

Adolf Hitlers nephew served in the US navy during ww2

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

This thread is certainly getting us all in the mood for sex

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By *oo32Man
over a year ago

tipperary

The American government quarantined several hundreds of women during ww2 to stop the spread of sti/std's to the soldiers

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By *etitesaraTV/TS
over a year ago

rochdale

"In ww1 over 35.000 Irish troops died. But only around 5000 in ww2 good news

And they were deemed deserters for joining the british forces as ireland decided not to join the allies against the nazis.

The IRA collaborated with the nazis and conducted several terrorist bombings in the uk during the war.

They wished to help the nazis invade via ireland however the german inteligence services deemed them too unreliable to be worth the effort or resources of any major support.

The original founders of the SNP including Donaldson were alleged to be Nazi sympathisers & Donaldson was arrested by MI5 but never charged.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

France has more tanks, guns and men than Germany in 1940

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Hitler's book Mein Kampf( 'my struggle'),

originally two volumes 1925 and 1927 ,

was a bestseller in the 1930s. After his death the book was banned in Germany.

In 2016 it entered the public domain after the copyright expired.

Days later a heavily annotated (simplified explanation version) of Mein Kampf was published in Germany for the first time since 1945 and became a bestseller.

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over a year ago

"Hitler's book Mein Kampf( 'my struggle'),

originally two volumes 1925 and 1927 ,

was a bestseller in the 1930s. After his death the book was banned in Germany.

In 2016 it entered the public domain after the copyright expired.

Days later a heavily annotated (simplified explanation version) of Mein Kampf was published in Germany for the first time since 1945 and became a bestseller."

Chapter 12 rewritten in English and adjusted so Germans were women and jews where white men was published in journals as a peice of praised feminist academic work as a joke by some scientists to prove a point

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Stalin liked to watch John Wayne movies but not nudity"

John Wayne nude.... Nah ! Who would

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

After the attack on Pearl Harbour, Roosevelt still couldn't bring himself to declare war on Germany, even though the British had allied themselves with the US over Japan. For some unknown reason, Hitler solved his political problem by declaring war on the US !!

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By *crumdiddlyumptiousMan
over a year ago

"The British used black propaganda including rumour. They made out that they had a method of turning the sea aflame should a German invasion force try to land. People swore they had found blackened bodies on the beaches from a probing force incinerated by the flames. In occupied Europe people used to pretend to warm their hands next to German soldiers sat at cafes and to this day some people still believe it was actually used on a German commando force."

Myth That carrots help you see in the dark

"During the 1940 Blitzkrieg, the Luftwaffe often struck under the cover of darkness. In order to make it more difficult for the German planes to hit targets, the British government issued citywide blackouts. The Royal Air Force were able to repel the German fighters in part because of the development of a new, secret radar technology. The on-board Airborne Interception Radar (AI), first used by the RAF in 1939, had the ability to pinpoint enemy bombers before they reached the English Channel. But to keep that under wraps, according to Stolarczyk’s research pulled from the files of the Imperial War Museum, the Mass Observation Archive, and the UK National Archives, the Ministry provided another reason for their success: carrots".

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Bread, which was never rationed during the second world war, was rationed in 1946 and was the last thing to be de rationed

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Hitlers private train in 1940 was called 'Amerika'

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

the US Army m1943 herringbone twill fatigue uniform had large pockets that were designed to hold k rations.(daily food rations boxes)

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By *tingly ByronMan
over a year ago

In a town Fab forgot

My grandad was a hero in the second world war.

In one day, thanks to my grandad the German airforce lost 18 fighter planes and 24 airmen lost their lives.

My grandad was possibly the Lufftwaffe's worst mechanic.

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over a year ago

The term 'Blitzkreig' never existed in any German military doctrine. A more accurate term was 'Bewegungskrieg' (manoeuvre warfare). Using combined arms the aim was to encircle the enemy and then destroy it in a battle of annihilation. German forces were able to penetrate allied lines as necessary as command was delegated to the lowest command at the point of breakthrough. Allied troops waited for command from above, thus causing delay in necessary action.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

the first known use of "OMG", was in a letter to Churchill

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"My grandad was a hero in the second world war.

In one day, thanks to my grandad the German airforce lost 18 fighter planes and 24 airmen lost their lives.

My grandad was possibly the Lufftwaffe's worst mechanic."

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

due to rationing during World War II the scarcity of chocolate led to the Invention of Nutella

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

the Taj Mahal was covered in bamboo to camouflage it from Ariel bombers

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"the first known use of "OMG", was in a letter to Churchill"

Overtly Misogynistic Git?

Obscene Military Gambler?

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"the first known use of "OMG", was in a letter to Churchill

Overtly Misogynistic Git?

Obscene Military Gambler?

no actually oh my god

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By *ed-monkeyCouple
over a year ago

Hailsham

"the Taj Mahal was covered in bamboo to camouflage it from Ariel bombers"

Goddamn that mermaid!!!

Or didn't they want it covered in detergent?

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"the first known use of "OMG", was in a letter to Churchill

Overtly Misogynistic Git?

Obscene Military Gambler?

no actually oh my god

I think Peter Griffin was funny on Family Guy when he was (I think )in or near a Mosque and he said 'OMA'

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By *C2019Couple
over a year ago

packington nw leicestershire

After london derby had the most anti aircraft guns to protect the precious rolls Royce factories that were churning out the engines for spitfires and mustangs

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hitler's house at Berchtesgaden is reachable by a gold elevator. (Confirmed by American troops who reached it before the Russians)

It loomed over the mountain ranges and the strange thing was that Hilter was scared of heights

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Christopher Lee was a pilot in the R A F

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

out of the 40000 men who served on U-boats only 10000 survived

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It would have been lost if not for indians and pakiststanis (and other commonwealth countries) of colour.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

General Eisenhower ordered every citizen of the German town of Gotha to tour the concentration camp Ohrdruf ,a subcamp of Buchenwald.

After the mayor of the town and his wife did so they went home and hanged themselves.

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By *erriAnneTV/TS
over a year ago

The shire

"due to rationing during World War II the scarcity of chocolate led to the Invention of Nutella"

most of our home and convenience technology comes from wartime research and development. A lot of what we have has come from the will to kill people then when it's no use to the military for what they intended it's been re appropriated into domestic invention

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"It would have been lost if not for indians and pakiststanis (and other commonwealth countries) of colour. "

Nope. Germany was mostly defeated by the Soviets and Japan by the USofA.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

The Leaning Tower of Pisa was once a Nazi observation post.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Hitler bit his fingernails..even while eating at a dinner table with guests.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hitler's favourite actor only died in 2011. Dutch Johannes heesters ,died age 108.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hitler liked westerns.

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By *V-AliceTV/TS
over a year ago

Ayr

Coca-Cola GmbH invented Fanta when a US embargo on Coca-Cola syrup came into force in 1940.

After the war, the parent company were more than happy to take over the brand and the profits.

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By *he James gangCouple
over a year ago

NEWTOWNABBEY

In the Irish Republic WW2 was referred to as the "emergency". All irish citizens who fought for the allies were blacklisted from working in any government employment after the war. An official pardon from the the Irish government was only passed about 6/7 years ago!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

(A fact I had to double check on)!.

More Chinese were killed by the Japanese during World War II than Jews in the Holocaust

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941 the name of the United States Navy command was CINCUS (sink us)!

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over a year ago

"The Soviets trained dogs to run under tanks with the engine running. In battle, they'd strap a mine to the dogs and let them loose on German tanks."

The downside to this was Russia used petrol tanks and the Germans diesel so the majority of the dogs went the wrong way blowing up Russian tanks and ending the program

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The soldiers of the United States 45th Infantry division wore initially a swastika on their shoulders

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By *ed-monkeyCouple
over a year ago

Hailsham

"The soldiers of the United States 45th Infantry division wore initially a swastika on their shoulders"

You seem to have similar knowledge to the UNLOS OP

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over a year ago

"The soldiers of the United States 45th Infantry division wore initially a swastika on their shoulders

You seem to have similar knowledge to the UNLOS OP

If that's the case, then I owe him an apology.

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over a year ago

"The soldiers of the United States 45th Infantry division wore initially a swastika on their shoulders

You seem to have similar knowledge to the UNLOS OP

"
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I know nothing and stop having sex with Tiger Woods (Chinese whispers thread)

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over a year ago

"The soldiers of the United States 45th Infantry division wore initially a swastika on their shoulders

You seem to have similar knowledge to the UNLOS OP

If that's the case, then I owe him an apology. "
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water under the bridge

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Christopher Lee was a pilot in the R A F"

Jimmy Stewart was a US Army Air Corps pilot flying B-24s over Germany

I think quite a few famous postwar actors fought in various capacities.

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By *hrisAndKatieCouple
over a year ago

stevenage

Hitler loved the red starburts

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over a year ago

"Christopher Lee was a pilot in the R A F

Jimmy Stewart was a US Army Air Corps pilot flying B-24s over Germany

I think quite a few famous postwar actors fought in various capacities. "
and presidents

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The first bomb landing in the UK landed at Hoy in the Orkney Islands 17th of October

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By *ed-monkeyCouple
over a year ago

Hailsham

"The first bomb landing in the UK landed at Hoy in the Orkney Islands 17th of October"

Highly prized strategic importance

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Hitler loved the red starburts "
in Mien Kampf- he hated the red anything..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Awful amount of red on many Nazi flags...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Awful amount of red on many Nazi flags...

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in 1919 the German workers party adopted the flags design shortly before Hitler joined as far as I know ,and in any event him not liking red was referring to the Soviet Union which he called less than human in his writings ..he quite admired Britain as 'Little' Britain had and Empire (by force he noted) and he wanted the same

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over a year ago

"Awful amount of red on many Nazi flags...

in 1919 the German workers party adopted the flags design shortly before Hitler joined as far as I know ,and in any event him not liking red was referring to the Soviet Union which he called less than human in his writings ..he quite admired Britain as 'Little' Britain had and Empire (by force he noted) and he wanted the same"

My Dad brought some amazing silk scarves back from Germany in ‘46. Green with High German slogans used at the rallies, a bayonet and a German helmet, which my brother wore when out on his motorbike lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

John Wayne didn't serve in the war due to a football injury

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

On the 4th October, 1940, the Japanese military dropped plague-infected fleas over a small Chineze town called Quzhou. It resulted in the death of more than 2,000 people. A railway worker carried the plague from Quzhou to the city of Yiwu which resulted in the death of a further 1,000 people.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The american P-51, german Fw 190 and the russian La-7 were the epitome of propeller driven fighter planes. Brilliant pieces of engineering.

Don't forget the Hurricane and Spitfire"

I see your hurricane and spitfire and raise you the wooden wonder, the mosquito, shamefully overlooked by casual history. Fighter, bomber, reconnaissance, pathfinder and u-boat killer.

Note on the mustang only became a class aircraft after being mated with the Merlin engine

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By *otlovefun42Couple
over a year ago

Costa Blanca Spain...

"Christopher Lee was a pilot in the R A F

Jimmy Stewart was a US Army Air Corps pilot flying B-24s over Germany

I think quite a few famous postwar actors fought in various capacities. "

Probably the most interesting was Richard Todd.

As a captain in the Parachute regiment he was involved in the battle of Pegasus Bridge on D Day alongside Major John Howard.

In the 1962 film The Longest Day Todd played Major John Howard in the same action.

He also played Guy Gibson in The Dambusters.

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By *ack69erMan
over a year ago

Beverley

Richard Todd, in the film "The Longest Day" wore the actual beret that he wore when he parachuted into Normandy. After landing he did go to support the glider-borne troops that had captured the canal bridge but was not involved in capturing it. Online in the Pegasus articles there is a long story narrated by himself of his experiences on D Day that appeared in a news paper.

During the film. he played Captain John Howard, and the part he was offered to play as himself on the actual day he deemed was very unimportant and was played by another actor.

Another actor involved in WW2 was Charles Bronson. A gunner on B-29's based in Guam bombing the Japanese home islands, flew 25 missions and received a Purple Heart.

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over a year ago

I saw this story about a Sgt Smith recently:

"In April 1945, a Halifax III bomber from No 58 Squadron, skippered by Flt Lt Lawson, was damaged after a bombing mission off the Norwegian coastline.

Crew member Sgt Frank Smith fell through a 12-foot hole in the fuselage and was presumed missing.

The bomber headed for RAF Carnaby but due to a fog-bound runway was advised to go elsewhere. With fuel gauges on zero, Flt Lt Lawson had no choice, Carnaby then relented and ordered FIDO to be turned on to aid a safe landing for the battle-damaged bomber.

A secret installation known as FIDO (Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation) was installed on the airfield. FIDO was a series of pipelines along the runway into which fuel was pumped.

During foggy weather, the fuel was set alight, creating sufficient heat to burn a hole in the fog. This hole created a ‘window in the fog enabling bomber pilots to see the runway and make a safe landing.

The Halifax approached the runway with no flaps and at a speed of 140 knots.

Upon disembarking, they discovered their missing crew member, Sgt Smith, suspended beneath the aircraft, saved by the D-ring on his parachute harness.

He had spent over three hours dangling perilously under the aircraft whilst flying back over the cold North Sea. He recovered after 48 hours in sick bay"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Goering’s brother was a psychoanalyst

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By *partharmonyCouple
over a year ago

Ruislip

The intended target for the second atomic bomb was Kokura. On the day, bad weather hampered targeting so the plane was diverted to the secondary target of Nagasaki.

When the plane landed back at base it only had five minutes of fuel left.

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By *ecretpantyTV/TS
over a year ago

lisburn

All interesting stuff

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By *ob P44Man
over a year ago

Bridgewater

Citreon and Mercedes were both told to make vehicles for the Reich, they both built them with deliberate faults so they would fail, only Peugeot who bombed his own factory as an act of defiance.

Hitler scoured the globe for religious artefacts believing they would make him unstoppable

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over a year ago

"Citreon and Mercedes were both told to make vehicles for the Reich, they both built them with deliberate faults so they would fail, only Peugeot who bombed his own factory as an act of defiance.

Hitler scoured the globe for religious artefacts believing they would make him unstoppable"

One good thing came out of that scouring:

Raiders of the Lost Ark!

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By *oiluvfunMan
over a year ago

Penrith

What a brilliant read this has been!

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By *ermite12ukMan
over a year ago

Solihull and Brentwood

Barnes Wallis 'Tallboy' bomb. - The ones that were used to sink the Tirpitz. - Broke the sound barrier before impacting on either the deck. Or, the ones that missed their target and landed in the water of Tromso Fjord.

However, it was the ones that landed in the water, that created the shockwaves and capsized Tirpitz.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

More people were killed in the preparation of the V-2 rocket and it's construction facilities than died from its devastating explosions.

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