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During WW II Britain stopped selling food to Ireland in order to persuade them to drop neutrality and enter the war. Ireland responded by cutting off all exports of Guinness. The supplying of food was resumed.
During WW II the 603rd unit was designated as Camouflage Engineers. Many of the soldiers were recruited from arts schools and set designers. Their objective was not only to teach camouflage, but to deceive the enemy through the art of design. They became known as the Ghost Army
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Albert Göring, the brother of Deputy Führer of the Nazi Reich Hermann Göring, despised the Nazis, and used his family's influence to save hundreds if not thousands of Jews and other dissidents from SS concentration camps during WW II.
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J. Edgar Hoover opposed the illegal internment of Japanese-Americans during WW II.
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Joseph Beyrle, the only American soldier to serve in both US & Soviet army during WW-II was declared dead by US military only to return in 1945 and get married in the same church by the same priest who held his funeral mass two years earlier.
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An American Army Air Force officer deserted in Pakistan during WW II, hitched a ride to Italy, stole a P-38 plane, deserted with the plane to the Nazis and became an officer in the SS.
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IG Farben, Bayer’s parent company in WW II, had extensive ties to the Third Reich, according to Auschwitz concentration camp documents. The company actually ran its own concentration camp where at least 30,000 slave workers died
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The "Churchill Crocodile", a WW II era tank modified as an armored flame thrower, capable of projecting flames over 120 yards.
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The Doughnut Dollies were women who volunteered with the Red Cross during WW I, II, and Vietnam. They drove Clubmobiles to both bases and field operations to serve soldiers coffee and doughnuts, play hit records and boost morale.
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During WW II a British sub sank a Japanese ship, not knowing it held 6300 POWs
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Only 139 cars were made in the U.S. during the entirety of its involvement in WW II.
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The U.S. Census Bureau gave up names and addresses of Japanese-Americans in WW II to assist in sending them to Internment Camps. This was denied for decades until finally confirmed in 2007
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The U.S. Census Bureau Gave Up Names of Japanese-Americans For Imprisonment in Internment Camps in WW II.
A former WW-II era U.S. submarine is still in active service in the Taiwanese Navy. - source
During the Second Sino-Japanese War & WW II, the Japanese had encased bubonic plague, cholera, smallpox, botulism, anthrax, and other diseases into bombs where they were routinely dropped on Chinese combatants and non-combatants. Approximately 580,000 people were killed by Japanese germ warfare - source
Nat King Cole's 'Straighten Up And Fly Right' was used as a call to arms by the Tuskegee Airmen in WW II
Nearly 80000 american soldiers were hospitalized during WW II because of "jeep seat", slang term for pilonidal cyst caused by many hours siting on a jeep. - source
At the close of WW II, United States Army Air Forces wanted to use its nuclear bombs on previously undamaged cities in order to have accurate data on nuclear-caused damage.
NYC's FDR Drive is built upon the rubble of buildings which were bombed during the blitz of London and Bristol during WW II.
About the 'Baby Blitz' of England during WW II that occurred in early 1944 in which over 1400 civilians were killed
Russia an Japan still haven't signed a peace treaty after WW II
During the Vietnam war, US dropped over 7 million tons of bombs, more than twice the total dropped during WW II.
Clifton James, who played the comedy relief southern Sheriff J.W. Pepper in James Bond films Live and Let Die and The Man With the Golden Gun, is alive and well at the age of 94, and is a decorated WW II veteran.
