Interesting WW2 facts

[Dani]

1. The first German serviceman killed in World War II was killed by the Japanese (China, 1937), the first American serviceman killed was killed by the Russians (Finland 1940), the highest-ranking American killed was Lt. Gen. Lesley McNair, killed by the U.S. Army Air Corps – so much for allies.

2. The youngest U.S. serviceman was 12-year-old Calvin Graham, USN. He was wounded and given a Dishonorable Discharge for lying about his age.(His benefits were later restored by act of Congress).

3. At the time of Pearl Harbor, the top U.S. Navy command was called CINCUS (pronounced “sink us”), the shoulder patch of the U.S. Army’s 45th Infantry Division was the Swastika, and Hitler’s private train was named “Amerika.” All three names were soon changed for PR purposes.

4. More U.S. servicemen died in the U.S. Army Air Corps than in the Marine Corps. While completing the required 25 missions your chance of being killed was 71 percent.

5. Generally speaking, there was no such thing as an average fighter pilot. You were either an ace or a target. For instance, Japanese ace Hiroyoshi Nishizawa shot down over 80 planes. He died while a passenger on a cargo plane.

6. It was a common practice on fighter planes to load every 5th round with a tracer round to aid in aiming. This was a mistake. Tracers had different ballistics so at long range if your tracers were hitting the target 80 percent of your rounds were missing. Worse yet, tracers instantly told your enemy he was under fire and from which direction. 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 ammo. This was definitely not something you wanted to tell the enemy. Units that stopped using tracers saw their success rate nearly double and their loss rate go down.

7. When the allied armies reached the Rhine River in Germany, the first thing men did was pee in it. This was pretty universal, from the lowest private to Winston Churchill (who made a big show of it) and Gen. George Patton (who had himself photographed in the act).

8. German Me-264 bombers were capable of bombing New York City, but it wasn’t worth the effort .

9. The German submarine U-120 was sunk by a malfunctioning toilet.

10. 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 then forced to fight for the Russian Army until they were captured by the Germans and further forced to fight for the German Army until they were captured by the U.S. Army.

11. Following a massive naval bombardment, 35,000 U.S. and Canadian troops stormed ashore at Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands. Twenty-one troops were killed in the firefight. It would have been worse if there had been any Japanese soldiers on the island.

[Dani]

12. The Russians destroyed over 500 German aircraft by ramming them in mid-air (they also sometimes cleared minefields by marching over them). "It takes a brave man not to be a hero in the Red Army" - Joseph Stalin

13. The US Army had more ships than the US Navy. The German Air Force had 22 infantry divisions, 2 armor divisions, and 11 paratroop divisions. None of them were capable of airborne operations. The German Army had paratroops who WERE capable of airborne operations. Go figure.

14. When the US Army landed in North Africa, among the equipment brought ashore was 3 complete Coca Cola bottling plants.

15. The Graf Spee never sank. The scuttling attempt failed and the ship was bought as scrap by the British. On board was Germany's newest radar system.

16. One of Japan's methods of destroying tanks was to bury a very large artillery shell with only the nose exposed. When a tank came near enough a soldier would whack the shell with a hammer. "Lack of weapons is no excuse for defeat." - LtGen. Mutaguchi

17. Following a massive naval bombardment 35,000 US and Canadian troops stormed ashore at Kiska. 21 troops were killed in the firefight. It would have been worse if there had been Japanese on the island.

18.The MISS ME was an unarmed Piper Cub. While spotting for US artillery her pilot saw a similar German plane doing the same thing. He dove on the German plane and he and his co-pilot fired their pistols damaging the German plane enough that it had to make a forced landing. Whereupon they landed and took the Germans prisoner. I don't know where they put them since the MISS ME only had 2 seats.

19. Most members of the Waffen SS were not German. The only nation that Germany declared war on was the USA.

20. During the Japanese attack on Hong Kong British officers objected to Canadian infantrymen taking up positions in the officer's mess. No enlisted men allowed you know.

21. Nuclear physicist Niels Bohr was rescued in the nick of time from German occupied Denmark. While Danish resistance fighters provided covering fire he ran out the back door of his home stopping momentarily to grab a beer bottle full of precious "Heavy Water". He finally reached England still clutching the bottle. Which contained beer. I suppose some German drank the Heavy Water.

[Dani]

22. Most ww2 deaths were due to famine and disease caused by war.

[tarmo]

LOL.

Good ones!

I would add one more:
22. When USSR occupied three Baltic states in 1940 and staged rigged elections in Estonia, the results of the elections were announced 1 hour before the election ended. Why? Because Estonian time zone was behind Moscow time. Soviets didn't want to repeat their mistake and brought the Baltic SSR-s into the same time zone as Moscow.

[Dani]

If anyone have some interesting facts of ww2 add on.

[Dani]

I guess people on here dont know any interesting facts about ww2.

[Stefanya]

1. The Soviet Army fought 85 percent of the Nazi forces and the Germans were on the run virtually defeaterd before the western allies finally decided to start a second front, after millions were dead.

2. Between 3 and 3.5 million Russian prisoners of war were worked and starved to Death by the Germans. They were not treated to "Hogan's Heroes" types prisons.

3. The Germans handed out 100,000 numbers to the Russian prisoners of war and reused those numbers hundreds of times instead of adding to those numbers, thus hiding the exact number of their crimes.

4. The Russian prisoners of war were adept at helping to sabotage German war production they were forced to participate in. For example, they sabotaged tanks which passed inspection but broke down under field conditions.

5. The big chief the Red Orchestra, the Soviet spy organization in World War II operated out of offices located accross the hall from the German Gestapo in a building in Paris.

[Drifter]

Stefanya, your comments sound like the story of "Potemkin's villages", full of air.

[Why_Me]

Stefanya wrote:

1. The Soviet Army fought 85 percent of the Nazi forces and the Germans were on the run virtually defeaterd before the western allies finally decided to start a second front, after millions were dead.
2. Between 3 and 3.5 million Russian prisoners of war were worked and starved to Death by the Germans. They were not treated to "Hogan's Heroes" types prisons.
3. The Germans handed out 100,000 numbers to the Russian prisoners of war and reused those numbers hundreds of times instead of adding to those numbers, thus hiding the exact number of their crimes.
4. The Russian prisoners of war were adept at helping to sabotage German war production they were forced to participate in. For example, they sabotaged tanks which passed inspection but broke down under field conditions.
5. The big chief the Red Orchestra, the Soviet spy organization in World War II operated out of offices located accross the hall from the German Gestapo in a building in Paris.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish-Soviet_No...

*Soviet-Polish Non-Aggression Pact*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov-Ribbentr...

*Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_...

*Soviet invasion of Poland (1939)*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_prisoners...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo-NKVD_Con...

*Gestapo-NKVD Conferences*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German-Soviet_Tr...

*German-Soviet Trade Agreement*

*Polish prisoners of war in the Soviet Union (after 1939)*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre

*Katyn massacre*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NKVD_prisoner_ma...

*NKVD prisoner massacres*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_operations_...

*Mass operations of the NKVD*

[Mr Because]

Oh Why_Me learned how to use Wiki.
=)

Well yes all Stefanya said and all you mentioned are thruth actually.

But I would not mention all your info as crimes or so.
Cause Katyn and Poland division and other stuff is absolutely normal. You know we`re trying to take after US all the time.
=)

[Stefanya]

Drifter wrote:

Stefanya, your comments sound like the story of "Potemkin's villages", full of air.

Only the true Potemkin's villages in Human form the Ukrainian DIASPORA of Canda who is rewriting history, would make such a stupid statment.

[Stefanya]

Dani wrote:

22. Most ww2 deaths were due to famine and disease caused by war.

YOu bet, like the Germans stealing all of the food from the people and letting them starve.

Like the Germans putting people into ghettos and not allowing food in, infact killing people who managed to snag food and trying to get it to their family members who were getting sick and dying.

Yep starvation and disease go hand in hand especially when the Germans hogged all the food and deliberately starved and worked people to death, when they weren't taking special people like the Jews to Auschwitz and the other camps who specialized in processing 2,000 people at a time five times a day for a total of 10,ooo people a day.

[YOur mom]

WW2 was stupid

[fascist chetnik]

Stefanya wrote:

1. The Soviet Army fought 85 percent of the Nazi forces and the Germans were on the run virtually defeaterd before the western allies finally decided to start a second front, after millions were dead.
2. Between 3 and 3.5 million Russian prisoners of war were worked and starved to Death by the Germans. They were not treated to "Hogan's Heroes" types prisons.
3. The Germans handed out 100,000 numbers to the Russian prisoners of war and reused those numbers hundreds of times instead of adding to those numbers, thus hiding the exact number of their crimes.
4. The Russian prisoners of war were adept at helping to sabotage German war production they were forced to participate in. For example, they sabotaged tanks which passed inspection but broke down under field conditions.
5. The big chief the Red Orchestra, the Soviet spy organization in World War II operated out of offices located accross the hall from the German Gestapo in a building in Paris.

1. Yes after you made the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, German–Soviet Trade Agreement, German–Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty, Gestapo-NKVD Conferences, Heinz Guderian and Semyon Krivoshein were at a German-Soviet victory parade in Brest on September 23, 1939. LOL you guys even had a Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact.

[fascist chetnik]

Stefanya wrote:

1. The Soviet Army fought 85 percent of the Nazi forces and the Germans were on the run virtually defeaterd before the western allies finally decided to start a second front, after millions were dead.
2. Between 3 and 3.5 million Russian prisoners of war were worked and starved to Death by the Germans. They were not treated to "Hogan's Heroes" types prisons.
3. The Germans handed out 100,000 numbers to the Russian prisoners of war and reused those numbers hundreds of times instead of adding to those numbers, thus hiding the exact number of their crimes.
4. The Russian prisoners of war were adept at helping to sabotage German war production they were forced to participate in. For example, they sabotaged tanks which passed inspection but broke down under field conditions.
5. The big chief the Red Orchestra, the Soviet spy organization in World War II operated out of offices located accross the hall from the German Gestapo in a building in Paris.

2. Prove it. And how many german POW"s did the Soviet Union kill? Let see remember Operation Hannibal? MV Wilhelm Gustloff a german passenger ship? Oh yeah and Red Army raped over 2 million german women during WW2 so stop crying and acting like a victim when your beloved USSR clearly was not.

[fascist chetnik]

Stefanya wrote:

1. The Soviet Army fought 85 percent of the Nazi forces and the Germans were on the run virtually defeaterd before the western allies finally decided to start a second front, after millions were dead.
2. Between 3 and 3.5 million Russian prisoners of war were worked and starved to Death by the Germans. They were not treated to "Hogan's Heroes" types prisons.
3. The Germans handed out 100,000 numbers to the Russian prisoners of war and reused those numbers hundreds of times instead of adding to those numbers, thus hiding the exact number of their crimes.
4. The Russian prisoners of war were adept at helping to sabotage German war production they were forced to participate in. For example, they sabotaged tanks which passed inspection but broke down under field conditions.
5. The big chief the Red Orchestra, the Soviet spy organization in World War II operated out of offices located accross the hall from the German Gestapo in a building in Paris.

3. Prove it and by the way you russians did the same. Russia also lied about the Katyn massacre. You russian also claimed that Nuremberg that the nazis made soap out of jew fat. Even Simon Wiesenthal said this was a lie. Soviet Union said and claimed that 4 million people died in Auschwitz concentration camp but today Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum said that only 1.1 million people died at Auschwitz concentration camp so might want to think who were the real criminals and liars.

[fascist chetnik]

Stefanya wrote:

1. The Soviet Army fought 85 percent of the Nazi forces and the Germans were on the run virtually defeaterd before the western allies finally decided to start a second front, after millions were dead.
2. Between 3 and 3.5 million Russian prisoners of war were worked and starved to Death by the Germans. They were not treated to "Hogan's Heroes" types prisons.
3. The Germans handed out 100,000 numbers to the Russian prisoners of war and reused those numbers hundreds of times instead of adding to those numbers, thus hiding the exact number of their crimes.
4. The Russian prisoners of war were adept at helping to sabotage German war production they were forced to participate in. For example, they sabotaged tanks which passed inspection but broke down under field conditions.
5. The big chief the Red Orchestra, the Soviet spy organization in World War II operated out of offices located accross the hall from the German Gestapo in a building in Paris.

4. But they did help them in Poland on 1939 september?

5. Yes and you recruted people like Hans Clemens, Heinz Felfe and Erwin Tiebel who were all hardcore SS officers to work for the KGB.

[fascist chetnik]

Mr Because wrote:

Oh Why_Me learned how to use Wiki.
=)
Well yes all Stefanya said and all you mentioned are thruth actually.
But I would not mention all your info as crimes or so.
Cause Katyn and Poland division and other stuff is absolutely normal. You know we`re trying to take after US all the time.
=)

Yes and making deals like Molotov-Ribbentrop pact is normal to. Bessarabia?

[fascist chetnik]

Stefanya wrote:

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YOu bet, like the Germans stealing all of the food from the people and letting them starve.
Like the Germans putting people into ghettos and not allowing food in, infact killing people who managed to snag food and trying to get it to their family members who were getting sick and dying.
Yep starvation and disease go hand in hand especially when the Germans hogged all the food and deliberately starved and worked people to death, when they weren't taking special people like the Jews to Auschwitz and the other camps who specialized in processing 2,000 people at a time five times a day for a total of 10,ooo people a day.

Germans did that? nOH NOH YOU LIAR. Russian Red Army raped and killed people even in Serbia. Of course uther denies this but many serbs today have a russian grandfather if you know what I mean. That russian grandfather met their grandmother on let say 1941-1945 also germans too. Alot of people in Germany who have a russian grandfather who was in the Red Army on 1941-1945. And you do know why they have a russian grandfather? Because of the Stalin"s army of rapist. Here check this:

"Red Army troops raped even Russian women as they freed them from camps"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/eur...

Red Army soldiers were so handsome and heroic nobody could resist them. Stupid dumb naive russian.

[Abe]

fascist chetnik wrote:

<quoted text>
Germans did that? nOH NOH YOU LIAR. Russian Red Army raped and killed people even in Serbia. Of course uther denies this but many serbs today have a russian grandfather if you know what I mean. That russian grandfather met their grandmother on let say 1941-1945 also germans too. Alot of people in Germany who have a russian grandfather who was in the Red Army on 1941-1945. And you do know why they have a russian grandfather? Because of the Stalin"s army of rapist. Here check this:
"Red Army troops raped even Russian women as they freed them from camps"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/eur...
Red Army soldiers were so handsome and heroic nobody could resist them. Stupid dumb naive russian.

lol

Interesting article on the Red Army scum.

I'll bet that's the reason Jazz Singer/Robespierre loves the Red Army so much.

He probably masturbates about himself being a Red Army soldier raping and killing innocent woman.

Its always these old fart dirty white trash men who have the sickest fantasies.