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unusual facts about world war



A Nomad of the Time Streams

In the first book, Warlord of the Air, Bastable finds himself transported to an alternate late-20th century Earth where the European powers did not stir each other into a World War and in which the mighty airships of a British Empire on which the sun never set are threatened by the rise of new and terrible enemies.

Army Beta

The Army Beta is the non-verbal complement of the Army Alpha—a group-administered test that was developed by Robert Yerkes and six other committee members to evaluate some 1.5 million military recruits in the United States during World War I.

Atomic Weapons Establishment

The airfield was constructed in World War II and had been used by the Royal Air Force and the United States Army's Eighth and Ninth Air Force as a troop carrier (C‑47) group base, and was assigned USAAF station No 467.

Basilio Lami Dozo

Basilio Lami Dozo Arturo Ignacio was born into a traditional family in the province of Santiago del Estero who are descendants of immigrants from Syria and Lebanon who came to the Republic of Argentina before the disappearance of the Ottoman Empire after the World War.

Carrock Fell

The mine was opened in 1854 but has only been worked in periods when the price of Tungsten has been high, for example during war time, the mine was worked extensively during both World Wars and the Korean War when supplies of Tungsten were threatened.

George E. P. Box

During World War II, he performed for the British Army experiments exposing small animals to poison gas.

Heavy warmblood

They are the ancestors of the modern warmbloods, and are typically bred by preservation groups to fit the pre-World War model of the all-purpose utility horse.

Hermann von Strantz

Hermann Christian Wilhelm von Strantz (13 February 1853 in Nakel an der Netze – 3 November 1936 in Dessau) was a Prussian officer, and later General of Infantry during World War I.

Infanta Blanca of Spain

After the defeat of Austria-Hungary in World War I in 1918 and the fall of the Habsburg dynasty, Archduchess Blanca with her husband and their children refused to recognize the new Austrian republic.

James Currey

At Heinemann, working with Chinua Achebe, Currey had spent more than a decade pioneering Heinemann's African Writers Series, the set of volumes that was a crucial factor in expanding the reach of African literature after World War II, particularly in English.

Lou Henry Hoover

During World War I, she assisted her husband in providing relief for Belgian refugees.

Maximilian von Laffert

Maximilian August Hermann Julius von Laffert (10 May 1855 in Lindau – 10 May 1917 in Frankfurt am Main) was a Saxon officer, later General of Cavalry during World War I.

Milan Gorkić

As good student, he continued high school education in Derventa, but soon left the school because of the World War.

Oborniki Śląskie

The fir was stamped with postmarks yet before the World War, but as a coat of arms was approved just in 1991.

Polish Forces War Memorial:National Memorial Arboretum

The National Memorial Arboretum near Lichfield, Staffordshire, England, comprises 150 acres of woodland and memorials dedicated to the fallen servicemen and women from World War I, World War and other conflicts of the 20th Century.

Richard Katz

After the First World War, Katz moved to Leipzig and in 1924 he became director of the Leipzig Publishing Company, a position he held for two years.

Smith and Pepper

The firm made a wide range of jewellery, notably swallow designs, popular during the World Wars and Egyptian style snake designs, after Egyptologist Howard Carter made ancient Egypt fashionable.

The Good, the Sad and the Drugly

When she discovers online reports about soap for drinks instead of water, a world war over a tiny drop of oil, a parking lot yet to be filled forever and the last polar bear committing suicide by hanging himself, she is filled with anxiety and depression and terrifies her classmates with her dark visions of the oceans rising from global warming, turning humanity and the lowlands into a desert and darkness falling upon Nineveh.


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66th Punjabis

After the First World War, the 66th Punjabis were grouped with the 62nd, 76th, 82nd and 84th Punjabis, and the 1st Brahmans to form the 1st Punjab Regiment in 1922.

A Jewish Girl in Shanghai

One flashback scene of the film, set in 1936, sees Rina and Michaili, in what appears to be an alpine setting in Europe, escaping being bombed by Nazi planes, despite the date preceding the aerial warfare of the Second World War.

Alfred W. Johnson

Vice Admiral Alfred Wilkinson Johnson, a US naval officer in the Spanish-American War and World War I

Ashe County, North Carolina

Helen Keller visited an Ashe County native, Marvin Osborne, in 1944 when he was wounded in France in World War Two.

Battle of Hill 60

Illowra Battery otherwise known as Hill 60, is a World War II fortification, in Port Kembla, New South Wales

Benjamin Alvord

Benjamin Alvord, Jr. (1860–1927), son of the above, American soldier, U.S. general during World War I

Betley Bridge

During the Second World War the Steyning Line was an important route to move sugar beet from Sussex farms from Henfield station towards the capital, and Betley Bridge was a strategic target for German bombers.

Byck

Muriel Byck, female Special Operations Executive agent during World War II

Cecil J. Doty

During World War II Doty worked on major war effort projects like the Alcan Highway and Shasta Dam.

Dewey Phillips

After serving in the Army during World War II, including seeing combat in the Battle of Hürtgen Forest, he moved to Memphis.

Edmund Crosby Quiggin

However, with the outbreak of the First World War, Quiggin found himself in war service from 1915 to 1919, first in Boulogne and then in the Admiralty's Intelligence Division.

Edward Kinder Bradbury

Bradbury was an officer in the British Army during the First World War where as second-in-command of L Battery, Royal Horse Artillery he led the battery during an engagement at Néry during the Retreat from Mons on 1 September 1914, where he was killed in action.

Escadrille 103

Escadrille 103 of the French Air Force was an elite aviation unit on the Western Front during the World War I. One of its many aces, René Fonck was the highest scoring Allied fighter-pilot.

Félix Mayol

Shortly after World War I, he purchased a plot of land in Toulon and donated it to the local sports club, RC Toulonnais, for the building of a stadium.

Fort Wool

Fort Wool even has an association with the actor Sir Alec Guinness, who was grounded in a minefield off the fort in World War II.

Free World

One of the earliest uses of the term Free World as a politically significant term occurs in Frank Capra's World War II propaganda film series Why We Fight.

Gaffey

Hugh Joseph Gaffey (1895–1946), Chief of Staff for General George Patton's Third Army during World War II

George Ellison

George Edwin Ellison (1878–1918), the last British soldier to be killed in the First World War

Graham Balcombe

During the Second World War, Balcombe was stationed in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, where he continued to develop his diving equipment, which was put to use at local sites such as Alum Pot, Keld Head and Goyden Pot.

Honor Bound

Honor Bound series, a series of World War II thriller novels written by W.E.B. Griffin

Hospital train

Such trains were able to connect with hospital ships at French channel ports in order to repatriate wounded British soldiers during the first world war.

Immaculate Conception Academy-Greenhills

The school moved seven times to accommodate its growing population, partly due to influx of Chinese immigrants escaping the Sino-Japanese War as well as the damage of school buildings as a result of the shelling of Manila by the Americans and the Japanese during World War II.

International Radio of Serbia

In November, 1941, during the occupation of Belgrade in the Second World War, a Free Yugoslavia radio station started its work and it broadcast its program until 1945, from the city of Ufa on the Ural River (Russia).

James LaBelle

James D. La Belle (1925–1945), United States Marine who received a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service during World War II

Karl Hanke

During the waning months of World War II, as the Soviet army advanced into Silesia and encircled Fortress (Festung) Breslau, Hanke was named by Hitler to be the city's "Battle Commander" (Kampfkommandant).

Kommodore

The World War II rank of Commodore existed in a grey zone of seniority, very similar to the Schutzstaffel (S.S.) rank of Oberführer.

Lithuanian resistance

Lithuanian partisans, resistance against Soviet regime after World War II

Lord Kitchener

Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (1850–1916), prominent British soldier in the Sudan, the Second Boer War, and World War I. Also featured in a famous British recruitment poster in World War I.

Louis Osman

During the Second World War he was a Major in the Intelligence Corps serving with the Combined Operations Headquarters and Special Air Service as a specialist in Air Photography.

Manlio Morgagni

He supported Italian intervention in World War I. From 15 November 1914 to 1919, he was administrative director of Il Popolo d'Italia, a newspaper he co-founded with Benito Mussolini.

Maurice Lauré

Originally an engineer of the École Polytechnique with the French postal and telephone service (PTT), he joined the French tax inspectorate after World War II.

Max Montgelas

The previous year he and Professor Walther Schucking had edited The Outbreak of the World War - German Documents collected by Karl Kautsky (commonly known as the Kautsky Documents) which were published by the Oxford University Press.

Morris Engines

The Hotchkiss company of France, who were makers of the famous machine gun, hurriedly transferred production to England during World War I when it looked as if their St. Denis factory near Paris was going to be overrun by the Germans.

Over Here!

The setting is a cross-country train trip in the United States during World War II (hence the name of the play, in contrast to the popular patriotic war anthem entitled Over There).

Pietro Lazzari

After the end of the First World War Lazzari joined the Italian Futurist movement and exhibited with such artists as Giacomo Balla and Gino Severini.

Qattara Depression

Ice Cold in Alex The 1958 film features the Depression during World War II

Radical Governments of Chile

The German-Soviet Non Aggression Pact of 1939 during the Second World War led to the dismantling of the left-wing coalitions, as the Komintern then denounced the Popular Front strategy.

Robert Dunlap

Robert Hugo Dunlap (1920–2000), United States Marine Corps, World War II Medal of Honor recipient

Samuel B. Griffith

After participating in the post-World War II occupation of North China, where he commanded the 3rd Marine Regiment and later the U.S. Marine Forces in Qingdao, he was a student and then a faculty member at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport from 1947 to 1950.

SASL

Solitaire Advanced Squad Leader, a single-player variant of the World War II board wargame Advanced Squad Leader

Shoot-and-scoot

The need for such tactics in World War II became obvious from the noticeable smoke signature produced by the use of anti-tank infantry weapons such as the M1 bazooka, Panzerfaust and Panzerschreck, and also by the various models of Nebelwerfer and Wurfrahmen 40 German barrage rocket systems.

Shvetsov M-11

It was also used for the up-engined GAZ-98K aerosani winter-used sled in a pusher configuration (as airboats use today), and as the standard powerplant for the similar NKL-26 propeller-driven sledges during the World War II years.

Speculator, New York

After World War I, famous athletes came to practice in the isolated communities, such as Gene Tunney, Max Schmeling, and Max Baer who arrived to train for the heavyweight championship fight.

Stephen Worobetz

During World War II, he served as a medical officer with the Canadian Army in Italy and was awarded the Military Cross.

Stumme

Georg Stumme (29 July 1886 – 24 October 1942), a German General of World War II

Ten Boom

Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983), author and Holocaust survivor who helped many Jews escape the Nazis during World War II

The Big Green Egg

The mushikamado first came to the attention of the Americans after World War II when US Air Force servicemen would bring them back from Japan in empty transport planes.

Wyre Piddle

It was the home village of Claude Choules, who was born in Pershore on 3 March 1901 and became the last surviving male veteran of World War I.

X-files unit

It contained information about a series of murders that occurred in Northwest America during World War II, seven of which took place in Browning, Montana.

Yakovlev Yak-3

Marcel Albert, the official top-scoring World War II French ace, who flew the Yak in USSR with the Normandie-Niémen Group, considered it a superior aircraft to the P-51D Mustang and the Supermarine Spitfire.