The first German soldier to die on the battlefield actually died at the hands of a Japanese man in China
The first American soldier to die on the battlefield was actually a Soviet, and the location was in Finland.
The youngest American soldier during World War II was Calvin Graham, who served in the Navy, when the boy was found to be 12 years old.
The death rate of the U.S. Army Air Corps is much higher than that of the U.S. Marine Corps. At that time, an aviation needed to complete 30 missions before it could return to the rear. However, the death rate of the aviation in these 30 missions was as high as 71%.
There's a movie called Landing Day. The film is made entirely on the facts. When the Allies fought in normandy, the first group of German soldiers captured after the landing was not expected to be only a few Koreans, and these Koreans were first captured by the Japanese army and pulled into the army, and then the Soviet army captured them and let them serve in the Soviet army, and then the Germans captured them and made them join the German army, until finally they were captured by the American army. These Koreans really walked the whole world battlefield at that time.
The reason why a German U-boat was sunk was due to the failure of a flush toilet on the submarine, which led to the sinking of the entire submarine.
In the North African theater, a 5,000-strong Italian army encountered barricades and mines set up by a company of British soldiers, and because they did not want to resist, they surrendered on the spot.
The British army reported to their superiors how many prisoners they had taken, and they said so, capturing a total of one acre of officers and nine acres of soldiers.
Later, because there were too many Italian prisoners captured, the British soldiers simply did not have time to build so many prisoner-of-war camps, so that they directly sent materials to the Italian prisoners, let them build their own prisoner-of-war camps, and lock themselves up.
Later, the German army found that there were only two British soldiers, crushing a whole company of Italian prisoners of war, and in order to rescue this pile of Italian prisoners of war, they began to shoot at the British army, and the Italians quickly ran, but in the direction of the British position.
Italy's most elite troops, while on the battlefield in North Africa, were being inspected by Rommel the Desert Fox, suddenly one morning the entire camp was empty, leaving only their special helmets on the ground. However, before this, no sound of fighting had been heard at all, that is, the entire unit of this elite unit had been captured without firing a single shot.
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