Ww2 facts

1. During World War 2, the British maintained an entirely fictional army, the “4th Army” that they successfully used to draw German forces away from invasion targets on multiple occasions, including the Normandy landings.

1. Admiral James Stockdale was a POW in Vietnam who beat himself in the face with a stool to keep from being put on Vietnamese propaganda videos.

01. During WW2, British cryptanalyst Dilly Knox often deciphered coded enemy messages in his tub, so he successfully lobbied to have one placed in his office. #worldwar2 #ww2 #secondworldwar #history #battle #pow

01. During WW2, a German soldier named Fritz Christen stood his ground for 3 straight days and knocked out 13 Soviet tanks and killed nearly 100 enemy soldiers single-handedly. #worldwar2 #ww2 #secondworldwar #battle #history #war

01. In WW2, a British pilot named Sergeant Sydney Cohen made an emergency landing on the Italian island of Lampedusa, only to have the island surrender to him. #worldwar2 #ww2 #battle #history #war #plane #weapon #classic

1. In WW2, the Nazis had a wooden airfield in Northern France and the British knew about it. Being British, they let them build it and when it was finished they dropped a wooden bomb on it.

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1. Many World War 1 battlefields are still so contaminated with unexploded ordnance and chemicals that human development is not allowed and won't be for at least another 300 - 500 years.