k firstly america hasnt lost a war cos it the original population was basically massacred. indian/bison vs rifle.. wasnt a good start. If England were to join the EU (properly), then the EU would be the new bad boy in town telling america wat to do. which could result in conflict espescially if Jacques Chirac starts dissing american food (McDonalds is crap), i mean everyone in my country was in outrage about it.. (i was just thinking 'who cares'). the american would probably be up for war and it'll end up like this.
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anyway what i really wanted to post was these random ww2 facts that i found on thejapanesepage.com
Military History-Stranger than Fiction
This is from Col. D.G. Swinford, USMC, Ret. HISTORY BUFF
1. The first German serviceman killed in WW 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 US Army Air Corps. . . So
much for allies.
2. The youngest US 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 US Navy command was
Called
CINCUS (pronounced "sink us"), the shoulder patch of the US
Army's 45th
Infantry division was the Swastika, and Hitler's private
train was named
"Amerika."
All three were soon changed for PR purposes.
4. More US servicemen died in the Air Corps than the Marine
Corps.
While completing the required 30 missions your chance of
being killed was
71%.
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% 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 allied armies reached the Rhine 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. 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. 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 forced to fight for the
Russian Army until they
were captured by the Germans and forced to fight for the
German Army until
they were captured by the US Army.
AND I SAVED THE BEST FOR LAST....
11. Following a massive naval bombardment 35,000 US and
Canadian
troops stormed ashore at Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands. 21
troops were
killed in the firefight.
It would have been even worse if there had been any Japanese on
the
island.