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January 16th, 2016 
Awake Goy The first German serviceman killed in World War Two was killed by the Japanese (China 1937). The first American to die was killed by the Russians (Finland 1940). The highest ranking American killed was Lt. Lesley McNair, killed by the U.S Army Air Corp.
The youngest U.S serviceman was 12-year old Calvin Graham USN. Wounded, he was given an honourable discharge for lying about his age. His benefits were later restored by Congress.
At the time of Pearl Harbor the top U.S Navy commander was called Cincus (pronounced sink us). The shoulder patch of the U.S Army 45th Infantry was the Swastika. Hitler’s private train was called ‘America.’ All three were changed for PR purposes.
More U.S servicemen died in the Air Corp than the Marines Corp. While completing the required 30 missions your chances of being killed were 71%.
Generally speaking there was no such thing as an average fighter pilot. You were either an ace or you were a target. For instance, Japanese ace Hiroyoshi Nishizawa shot down over 80 aircraft. He died whilst a passenger on a cargo plane.
It was common practice for fighter planes to load every 5th round with a tracer round to aid aiming. This was a mistake. Tracers have different ballistics so, at long range, if your tracers were hitting the target, 80% of your rounds were missing the target. Worse, tracers immediately 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 running out of ammunition. This was definitely something that you didn’t want your enemy to know. Units that stopped using tracers saw their success nearly double and their loss rate go down.
When Allied armies reached the Rhine the first thing men did in it was take a pee in it. This practice was pretty much universal from the lowest private to Winston Churchill and U.S General Paton. Both men were photographed doing so.
German Me-264 bombers were capable of bombing New York City but it had been decided that it wasn’t worth it.
German U-boat submarine U-120 was sunk by a malfunctioning toilet.
Among the first Germans captured at Normandy, France, were several Koreans. They had been forced to fight for the Japanese Army until they were taken into captivity by the Russians. Conscripted into the Red Army they were later captured by the Germans. It was whilst they were doing so that they were captured by the U.S. Army.
Finally: following a massive naval bombardment 35,000 U.S and Canadian troops stormed ashore at Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands. 21 troops were killed in the fire fight that followed. It could have been worse had there been any Japanese on the island.
Source Article from http://renegadetribune.com/the-absurdities-of-war/
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