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100 unusual facts about World War II


10th Malay Regiment

The regiment fought against the British occupation of Malaysia after World War II.

1938–39 Bohemian Championship season

Due to the outbreak of World War II, the Czechoslovak Extraliga was cancelled, and the championship was made up of teams from Central Bohemia.

1941 Cabo San Lucas hurricane

Initially following the storm, Cabo San Lucas was abandoned, but after World War II, most of the destroyed buildings were rebuilt.

1955 System

After World War II, in November 1945, the major prewar conservative, moderate, and progressives had reorganized and the Japanese Communist Party (JCP) had been legalized.

91st Missile Wing LGM-30 Minuteman Missile Launch Sites

The senior 91st SMW had organizational roots dating from World War II and had been deployed from Glasgow AFB to Southeast Asia, where it had been flying combat missions with the B-52 Stratofortress during the Vietnam War.

95th Evacuation Hospital

During World War II the 95th Evacuation Hospital operated as a 400-bed mobile hospital.

Abe Lastfogel

During World War II, Lastfogel mounted USO-Camp Shows with more than 7000 performers, including Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Dinah Shore and James Stewart, to two hundred million soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines around the world.

Abortion Law Reform Association

The Abortion Law Reform Association is a former advocacy organisation founed in 1936 by Janet Chance, Alice Jenkins and Joan Malleson which promoted access to abortion in the United Kingdom It campaigned effectively after World War II for the elimination of legal obstacles to abortion and the peak of its work was the Abortion Act 1967.

Ahven class minesweeper

The ships were constructed in 1937 at the Turun veneveistämö shipyard and saw service during World War II.

Alexandra Land

During World War II the Germans established an ill-fated meteorological station on the island.

Alfoxton House

During World War II it housed evacuees from Wellington House School Westgate on Sea Kent.

Allan Ashbolt

He was born in Melbourne and attended Caulfield Grammar School, and served with the Australian Imperial Force in World War II.

Alvilde Chaplin

She met James Lees-Milne, who became her second husband, during World War II while she was engaged in an affair with the arts patron Winnaretta de Polignac.

American-Hawaiian Steamship Company

During World War II, the company operated many Liberty ships and Victory ships under the War Shipping Administration, including the Daniel Boone, the John Milledge, the John Drake Sloat, the Benjamin Goodhue and the Chanute Victory.

Arctic Star

Though the Arctic Star is intended to recognize the service of personnel in the Arctic convoys of World War II, other members of the military and civilians may qualify.

Aroostook County, Maine

During the post World War II era, much of Aroostook County's economy was dominated by military spending.

Arre

ARRE, Assault Regiment, Royal Engineers, a unit of the British Royal Engineers, part of the 79th Armoured Division during World War II

Arthur V. Loughren

In 1936 he joined Hazeltine Corporation, during World War II helped develop IFF equipment for the Navy, and afterwards directed its research on color television.

Asahikawa, Hokkaido

Asahikawa thrived as a military city before World War II, when the IJA 7th Division was posted there.

Battle of Lunga Point

Battle for Henderson Field, a battle that took place October 23 – 26, 1942 during the Guadalcanal Campaign in the Pacific War of World War II.

Battle of Tassafaronga, a battle that took place November 30, 1942 during the Guadalcanal Campaign in the Pacific War of World War II.

Bombing of Rabaul

Bombing of Rabaul may refer to the following engagements of World War II

Brocken Transmitter

This tower was intended to be used after 1939 for TV transmissions to central Germany, but due to the beginning of World War II, it was transformed into a radar facility.

Centre for the Study of the Causes of the War

Harry Elmer Barnes, an American, who between World War I and World War II was a well-known anti-war writer, a leader in the historical revisionism movement and later to become a Holocaust denier, and from 1924 onwards worked closely with Centre for the Study of the Causes of the War.

Charles D. Tandy

He first turned it into a leathercraft company when shoe rationing in World War II almost killed the business, and later expanded into selling leather and tools to make such products as wallets.

Christianity in East Germany

After World War II, the Catholics in the zone occupied by the Soviet army found themselves under a hostile government.

Clan Gayre

Robert Gayre of Gayre and Nigg (original name Robert Gair), the father of the present chief, created the clan after World War II.

Clandestine operation

In World War II, targets found through cryptanalysis of radio communication, were attacked only if there had been aerial reconnaissance in the area, or, in the case of the shootdown of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, where the sighting could be attributed to the Coastwatchers.

As noted in the definition (which has been used by the United States and NATO since World War II) in a covert operation the identity of the sponsor is concealed, while in a clandestine operation the operation itself is concealed.

Curt Bois

After World War II Bois decided it was safe to return to Germany, which he did in 1950.

De Hems

During World War II, after Holland actually fell to the German invasion, Dutch resistance exiles then met regularly at the pub which became their unofficial headquarters.

Edfor

With the start of World War II, Ferreirinha's dream of building a production series came to an end.

Ella Island

During World War II, US forces had an installation on the island called Bluie East Four.

Entre Deux Guerres

L'Entre Deux Guerres is a French expression (~ between two wars) which refers to the interwar period between World War I and World War II (1918 - 1939).

Evacuations of civilians in Japan during World War II

The story was based on his experiences during the Kobe air raid in 1945 and afterward as an evacuee.

Fort Logan

It was established in October 1887, when the first soldiers camped on the land, and lasted until 1946, when it was closed following the end of World War II.

FUDOFSI

Very little information is known about FUDOFSI since neither the organisation or its leader survived the Second World War (in 1944, Constant Chevillon, the head of FUDOFSI, was murdered by the Gestapo).

Gasparillo Island

The government regained possession of the island when the United States was leased areas in Trinidad under the Destroyers for Bases Agreement in 1940 during World War II.

Guerchais-Roche T.35

Roche Aviation designed the T.35 during the latter part of World War II as a low-wing touring monoplane with fixed undercarriage.

Guild of Drama Adjudicators

GoDA was founded in 1947 as a response to the growing dissatisfaction about standards of adjudication in the boom festival years after World War II with an editorial in the magazine Amateur Stage providing the impetus for its establishment.

Hamitic

Following World War II, Belgium’s colonial administration had been placed under United Nations trusteeship; it was to prepare Rwanda for eventual independence as a self-governing nation.

HMCS Raccoon

HMCS Raccoon was an armed yacht that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II.

Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker

Knickerbocker was noted for reporting on German politics before and during World War II.

India General Service Medal

With the outbreak of the Second World War and Indian independence in 1947, no further medals in this series were issued.

İsmail Rüştü Aksal

During the World War II years he served as a finance advisor of the Turkish embassy in London.

Jack Lowe, Sr.

A year later, their second child, Ann, was born, and Lowe became district manager over air conditioning, just before the country went to war.

When the country went to war, GE promptly declared Lowe vital to the war effort and arranged a deferment which he just as promptly refused to accept.

James Stanley Freeman

He and his wife, Willie Lee Shepherd, had one son, James Shepherd Freeman, a famous World War II Admiral.

Japan–Latin America relations

The relationship was officially established in 1908, but interrupted between 1942 and 1954 with the surge of World War II.

Josef Beneš

After World War II he briefly worked at the Ministry of Education, then returned to the teaching.

Josef Špaček

Following World War II, liberated Czechoslovakia became increasingly subject to political pressure from the Soviet Union.

Juanita Miller

Meeting her husband, Henry S. Miller, Jr. (who later ran the successful Henry S. Miller Company) at a return center for World War II veterans in 1945, she stayed married until her death.

Juliusz Petry

Juliusz Petry (born 1890, died 1961) - was a Polish writer, and radio director; he was the first director of Polish Radio in Lwów and Wilno and, after World War II, in Wrocław.

Karl Geiler

His term from October 12, 1945 to December 20, 1946 saw the first local elections after World War II in January 1946, the vote on the constitution of Hesse and the first election of the Landtag of Hesse in December 1946.

Krawutschke Tower

The Krawutschke Tower is 400.5 m above sea level, situated on the Burgberg (Engl. castle mountain), which, during World War II, also had the Allied-given name Hill 400 due to its elevation.

KRLX

All electronics were handmade out of spare parts and the transmitter was from a scrapped World War II destroyer.

Kurt Schmücker

From 1940 to 1945 he served in the German infantry during World War II.

Light railway

Although World War II provided a brief increase in the importance of these railways very few lasted beyond the early 1950s.

Lilly Wust

Charlotte Elisabeth "Lilly" Wust (1913–2006) was a German housewife of a German banking accountant and soldier during World War II.

Longinus Tower

It was from the Longinus Tower that, in 1952, Reinhold Holtstiege, transmitted the first public television programmes after World War II.

Lotte Laserstein

After World War II, her works consisted of inoffensive portraits which lacked the vigour of her early work.

Louis Zukofsky

Especially the sections of "A" written shortly before World War II are political: Section 10 for example, published in 1940, is an intense and horrifying response to the fall of France.

Following brief stints as a substitute public school teacher and lab assistant at Brooklyn Technical High School in the aftermath of the WPA layoff, Zukofsky edited military-oriented textbooks and technical manuals at the Hazeltine Electronics Corporation (1943–44), the Jordanoff Corporation (1944–46), and the Techlit Corporation (1946–47) through the remainder of World War II and its immediate aftermath.

Lutz Children's Museum

There are hometown staples such as Marlow's department store, the typical Main Street apartment, and nods to World War II such as an old-fashioned radio, newspapers, and other similar artifacts.

Mahmoud Cherif

He participated as a French-Algerian soldier on the side of the Allies in the Second World War.

MI19

In World War II it was responsible for obtaining information from enemy prisoners of war.

Military Service Act

Military Service Act 1939, introduced in the United Kingdom in 1939 in the run-up to World War II

Motorenbau Werk Kassel

During World War II the Motorenbau Werk Kassel (Engineconstruction Factory Kassel - MWK) in Kassel was a branch factory of the Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke AG Dessau and supplier for strategic military technology among other things the first ready for serial production Turbostrahltriebwerk Jumo 004B (jet engine) of the world.

Naval Ops: Commander

In the opening cutscene, a World War II-era destroyer similar to its predecessor, Naval Ops: Warship Gunner.

Naval Ops: Warship Gunner 2

However, the first playthrough is generally consistent with the historical World War II, while subsequent playthroughs feature more lasers and high-tech weapons, as well as a slightly extended ending.

Newmanry

The Newmanry was a section at Bletchley Park, the British codebreaking station during World War II.

No Banners, No Bugles

No Banners, No Bugles (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1949) is a book by Edward Ellsberg describing his activities as Principal Salvage Officer for Operation Torch during World War II.

No. 1 Air Experience Flight RAF

The pilot staff comprised many experienced aircrew, some of whom had served operationally during the latter part of World War II and during the heightened tensions of the Cold War.

Nütschau Priory

Occupying the former Nütschau manor house (Herrenhaus Nütschau), built in 1577-79 by Heinrich Rantzau, this community originated after World War II as a refuge for displaced persons, particularly Catholics from the former German territories.

Ohaus

The onset of World War II increased the demand for laboratory equipment, and thus an additional Ohaus-owned factory opened in 1941.

Operation Coronet

During World War II, two operations in the Pacific theater were called Operation Coronet.

Operation Willi

This investigation, based on a combination of surveillance, informants and hearsay, alleged that the Windsors, especially the duchess, had been passing secrets to the Nazis to wreck the Allies' war effort, primarily through Ribbentrop, who was said to be Mrs. Simpson's lover.

When World War II broke out in September 1939, the Duke became liaison officer with the British military mission with the French Army High Command.

Petticoat Lane Market

The severe damage inflicted throughout the East End during the Blitz and later German bombing of World War II served to disperse the Jewish communities to new areas.

Pietersburg Abbey

Monastic observance at Noodshulp was interrupted by World War II, to be resumed in 1947.

Plan Frederiks

Plan-Frederiks was a plan made up by the Dutch politicians K.J. Frederiks and J. van Dam that was meant to protect Jewish people in name of the German people during World War II.

Raleigh Spy Conference

“We don’t know what really happened until someone declassifies something,” said Reeves, “beginning with the declassification of the British Ultra Secret program from World War II, followed by the American Venona decrypts from the Cold war and continuing in earnest since the collapse of the USSR.”

Renault España

It was affected by the proliferation of protectionist barriers, little demand and declining selling prices, factors that were aggravated by the Spanish Civil War and World War II.

Robert Trout

In one of Trout's NPR reminiscences, airing July 9, 1999, he admitted that an oft-played recording of his announcing the end of World War II ("my greatest hit, as it were") on August 14, 1945 was actually a fake.

Robert "Bob" Trout (October 15, 1909 - November 14, 2000) was an American broadcast news reporter, best known for his radio work before and during World War II.

Rosbaud

Paul Rosbaud, 20th Century Austrian scientist and spy for Great Britain during World War II

Selective Service Act

Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, enacted September 16, 1940, in preparation for the American entry into World War II

SS City of Los Angeles

SS City of Los Angeles (1918), laid down under this name but became USS Victorious (ID-3514) for the United States Navy in World War I; sailed as SS City of Havre from 1931 to 1938; sailed as SS City of Los Angeles (1938) until 1940; became USS George F. Elliot (AP-13) for the United States Navy in World War II; bombed and sunk at Florida Island in 1942

Stanisław Zenon Zakrzewski

Zakrzewski was an author of the first Polish post-World War II yachting handbook Druh wiatr.

Swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre breaststroke

It was also the first appearance of the event since the outbreak of World War II.

Thakin Chit Maung

He participated in the anti-British campaign led by General Aung San (father of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi) and fought against the Japanese during World War II.

Tour bus service

World War II saw the industry decline, but it slowly re-emerged as an alternative to driving.

Twin Cities Rail Transport

The system began to decline in the years leading up to World War II as automobile use began to rise.

Ulrich Biel

After the end of World War II, he returned to Berlin as an American officer but became a German citizen again.

USS LST-594

USS LST-594 was an LST-542 class tank landing ship, built for the United States Navy during World War II.

Walter E. Heller

As American businesses became more sophisticated and manufacturing became more prominent after World War II, certain industries primary used factoring as a form of business finance and credit insurance on the credit risk of its customers.

West York Island

There are no buildings on the island, except for the ruins of houses built by the Japanese soldiers during World War II, and a small Philippine observation post, where Filipino soldiers stationed are taking shelter.

Wilhelm Kimmich

He took also part in World War II since 1943 and was released from French captivity in 1946.

Winifred Fortescue

Her husband died within 2 years of them moving to France but she stayed on until forced to move out by the German invasion in World War II.

World War II: Frontline Command

It was originally released in Europe during September 2002 by Deep Silver and subsequently released in June 2003 by Focus Multimedia.


Ali Aref Bourhan

Through the latter, he was introduced to Mahmoud Harbi, the Vice President of the Government Council of French Somaliland and a former comrade of the Sultan in the French army during the World War II campaign.

Alistair Hepburn

Hepburn studied as a chartered surveyor and valuer at Eastbourne College of Arts and Technology in East Sussex before joining the Royal Artillery during World War II.

Arts Educational Schools, London

The school was first based in premises at Stratford Place in London, but following the outbreak of World War II, the school was relocated to Tring in Hertfordshire, where it shared premises with the Rothschild Bank in the mansion at Tring Park.

Betsy Jochum

Chewing gum magnate and Chicago Cubs owner Philip K. Wrigley decided, in 1942, to start a women's professional baseball league, concerned that the 1943 Major League Baseball season might be canceled because of World War II.

Brendan I. Koerner

It is a non-fiction narrative investigating and recounting the story of Herman Perry, an African-American World War II soldier stationed in the China-Burma-India theatre of the war.

Crosley Broadcasting Corporation

During World War II, Crosley built the Bethany Relay Station in Butler County, Ohio's Union Township, one mile west of its transmitter for WLW, for the Office of War Information.

Daring Mystery Comics

In the 1970s, the Blue Diamond resurfaced in period stories in Marvel Premiere, as a member of the homefront World War II team the Liberty Legion.

David Stanley Evans

Being a conscientious objector to World War II he spent the war years at Oxford with physicist Kurt Mendelssohn where they worked on medical problems relating to the war effort.

Deep Sea Monster Reigo

The film, set in World War II, depicts the story of the real-life Japanese battleship, the Yamato, which is confronted in the Pacific Ocean by giant monsters, including the most fearsome of them all, Reigo.

Donald S. Kellermann

He was a radio broadcaster while serving with the United States Army in Germany during World War II and went to work for the Brooklyn Eagle after leaving Hofstra University.

F.P.1

The German version was the last German film that either Siodmak or Peter Lorre, who played a secondary character, would make in Germany before the war.

Fourth Battle of Savo Island

Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, a battle that took place November 12 – 15, 1942 during the Guadalcanal Campaign in the Pacific War of World War II.

Frank Dempsey

Dempsey was remembered as a good-natured mischief maker and for the pranks and activities of his teammates that revolved around his World War II-era surplus Jeep.

Freedom Square, Tbilisi

In 2005 Freedom Square was the location where U.S. President George W. Bush and Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili addressed a crowd of around 100,000 people in celebration of the 60th anniversary marking the end of World War II.

German encounter of Soviet T-34 and KV tanks

Prior to the invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, the German armed forces were not aware of two newly developed Soviet tanks, the T-34 and the KV.

Gisela Legath

Gisela Legath from Eberau was a Burgenland woman who saved with the help of her two children Martin Legath and Frieda Legath the life of two Hungarian Jews from the Nazis during World War II by providing a shelter in their barn.

Grendon, Northamptonshire

Some Second World War memories by a village resident of being straffed in the fields by a Nazi German controlled Spitfire can be found here

Hans Rotmo

He was a supporter of the revolutionary communist movement AKP(m-l) in his younger years, and many of the lyrics of his songs, especially those from the Vømmøl period, are influenced by the thoughts of Mao Zedong and Karl Marx, although the surface content of most of these songs concern the population of rural Norway, the industrial progress that followed World War II, and the effects of the latter on the former.

Hideo Kobayashi

Following the end of World War II, Kobayashi was sharply attacked by leftists for his collaboration with the Japanese military, but the US occupation authorities never filed any charges against him, and he was not even purged from public life.

Jack Mendelsohn

Dropping out of high school, Mendelsohn joined the Navy and after World War II, he contributed gag cartoons to The Saturday Evening Post and other magazines.

Kazimierz Leski

Kazimierz Leski, nom de guerre Bradl (21 June 1912 — 27 May 2000), was a Polish engineer, co-designer of the Polish submarines ORP Sęp and ORP Orzeł, a fighter pilot, and an officer in World War II Home Army's intelligence and counter-intelligence.

La Vallon Airfield

La Vallon Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield in France, which is located approximately 6 km north-northeast of Montbrison (Departement de la Loire,Rhone-Alpes); about 385 km south-southeast of Paria.

Leon Vance

The group was assigned to the 95th Combat Bombardment Wing of the 2nd Bomb Division and based at RAF Halesworth.

Lessing J. Rosenwald

Rosenwald was the best known Jewish supporter of the America First Committee, which advocated American neutrality in World War II before the attack on Pearl Harbor, and was led by his successor at Sears-Roebuck and lifelong friend Robert E. Wood.

MacDonald Airfield

MacDonald Airfield was an airfield built alongside the former northern road, west of Stuart Highway, north of Pine Creek, Northern Territory, Australia during World War II.

Mosor

In April, 2009 speleologists discovered human remains in pits on the mountain, originally thought to be victims of the Yugoslav Partisans from World War II.

Oschersleben

In the years previous to World War II Oschersleben expanded due to the airplane manufactory (AGO Flugzeugwerke) that was founded there and needed numerous workers.

Pēteris Lauks

Pēteris Lauks (10 February 1902 in Riga - 15 March 1984 in Kitchener, Canada) was a Latvian football defender, one of the most capped footballers for Latvia national football team before World War II.

Phillip Shriver

During World War II, he served as a lieutenant (j.g.) in the U.S. Navy aboard the Pacific Fleet destroyer USS Murray and participated in the Iwo Jima and Okinawa campaigns.

Ping Chong

Cathay was set in China and used three interconnected stories to explore three eras of Chinese history: the Tang Dynasty, the Japanese invasion during World War II, and contemporary China today.

Ponte Vedra Inn and Club

The Ryder Cup was scheduled to be held there in 1939, but was canceled when World War II began.

Quai des Orfèvres

Quai des Orfèvres was also a comeback film for director-actor Louis Jouvet with whom Clouzot had become good friends before World War II.

Ralph Flanagan

By 1949 he formed a very successful orchestra which is credited with re-popularizing the Glenn Miller "sound," and which made many records, among them "Singing Winds","Rag Mop" and "Hot Toddy." The Ralph Flanagan band was managed by Herb Hendler, an RCA A&R man who had signed Glenn Miller to his final record contract before Miller's fatal plane crash in the English Channel during World War II.

Roderick Stephens

He received the Medal of Freedom, the United States's highest civilian award, for his contributions during World War II in his design and engineering of the DUKW ("duck") military amphibious vehicle.

Saint-Victor, Quebec

A Royal Canadian Air Force pilot in World War II, he attacked a cargo ship along the Normandy coast, shot a Nazi airplane, and was credited for sinking a Nazi ship in the North Sea.

Shaarei Tzedec

The Markham Street Shul is one of the few remaining synagogues and the last remaining shtiebel of what were once dozens of small congregations in the area around Kensington Market, Spadina Avenue and Bathurst Street - which was a vibrant Jewish area prior to World War II.

Shadow Divers

In 1991, a group of divers, including Richie Kohler and John Chatterton, set out on Seeker to explore an unknown object lying 230 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean and discover an apparent historical impossibility: a World War II German U-Boat off the coast of New Jersey.

Shanghai Girls

The sisters' story is interrelated with critical historical events, famous people, and important places—the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Battle of Shanghai, internment at Angel Island, Los Angeles Chinatown, Hollywood, World War II, the Chinese Exclusion Act, McCarthyism, etc.

Simon H. Rifkind

He was appointed by the United States Supreme Court to sort out the rival claims of various western states to the Colorado River, was tapped by President John F. Kennedy to investigate railroad labor issues, and helped create (and later served as General Counsel of) the Mutual Assistance Corporation for New York City during New York's bankruptcy crisis in the 1970s.

Small Heath, Birmingham

The fall of France had not been anticipated in Government planning and the encirclement of a large part of the British Expeditionary Force into the Dunkirk pocket resulted in a hasty evacuation of that part of the B.E.F following the abandonment of their equipment.

Táňa Fischerová

Her father, theatre director Jan Fischer (or Fišer), was imprisoned in Theresienstadt and Auschwitz concentration camps during the World War II.

Theodore McEvoy

Air Chief Marshal Sir Theodore Neuman McEvoy KCB CBE RAF (21 November 1904 – 19 September 1991) was a senior Royal Air Force officer during World War II who held high command in the 1950s and early 1960s.

Waco E series

Because of the type's good performance, 15 examples were impressed by the United States Army Air Forces during World War II for communications work as the C-72.

William G. Sebold

William G. Sebold (Wilhelm Georg Debrowski; 10 March 1899 in Mülheim, Germany – February 1970 in Walnut Creek, California) was a German spy in the United States during World War II, who became a double agent for the FBI.