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WWII trivia thread
Posted on 6/15/25 at 4:04 pm
Posted on 6/15/25 at 4:04 pm
Nearly 80,000 Italian POW's crossed over and worked in noncombat roles for the US. Army. Each unit had an American commander but otherwise had its own officers and NCO's and worked with minimal American supervision.
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Posted on 6/15/25 at 4:06 pm to Jim Rockford
Almost 1/3rd of US air crew casualties occurred in training.
Posted on 6/15/25 at 4:25 pm to Jim Rockford
Mafia don Lucky Luciano used his union connections to support the Allied war effort. After the war, Governor Dewey pardoned him.
Posted on 6/15/25 at 4:36 pm to Indefatigable
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Almost 1/3rd of US air crew casualties occurred in training.
How my maternal grandfather died.
Posted on 6/15/25 at 4:38 pm to Jim Rockford
Oradour-sur-glane is a small village in France that has been left untouched since the Waffen-SS murdered most of the civilians and burnt the village to the ground in 1944. The ruins of the village serve as a memorial to the French civilians who were caught up in this Nazi atrocity.
Posted on 6/15/25 at 4:44 pm to Jim Rockford
I’m sure Hollywood will come in and tell us that a few sassy black queens were the actual real reason the allies won the war in a few years.
This post was edited on 6/15/25 at 4:47 pm
Posted on 6/15/25 at 4:46 pm to grizzlylongcut
Ever watch the Louisiana WWII high school trivia challenge? Questions are INSANE, kids are brilliant who win this thing-think it is same HS every year.
Posted on 6/15/25 at 4:47 pm to Jim Rockford
Mark Felton does some real interesting "trivia" videos....
I always enjoy his stuff
I always enjoy his stuff
Posted on 6/15/25 at 4:47 pm to sledgehammer
70-75% of U-Boat crews died in action in WW2
There was a waiting list of volunteers from the beginning of the war to the end
There was a waiting list of volunteers from the beginning of the war to the end
Posted on 6/15/25 at 4:47 pm to Jim Rockford
My Grandpa lost his right thumb.
He could still roll his own Prince Albert cigarettes though.
He could still roll his own Prince Albert cigarettes though.
Posted on 6/15/25 at 4:56 pm to Jim Rockford
The PBY Catalina was the original stealth bomber.
This flying boat was painted black for night operations and bombed and strafed the enemy. They also rescued downed pilots.
This flying boat was painted black for night operations and bombed and strafed the enemy. They also rescued downed pilots.
This post was edited on 6/15/25 at 4:58 pm
Posted on 6/15/25 at 5:16 pm to Jim Rockford
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Kent Rogers was an American actor who appeared in several live-action features and shorts, and a voice actor for Warner Bros. Cartoons and Walter Lantz Productions.
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For Warner Bros. Cartoons, Rogers portrayed several Hollywood stars in Hollywood Steps Out, and lent his voice to The Heckling Hare, Porky's Pastry Pirates, Horton Hatches the Egg, The Squawkin' Hawk and Super-Rabbit. Rogers also provided the original voice of Beaky Buzzard in Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid and The Bashful Buzzard. He also provided the voice of Junior Bear in Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears, the initial 1944 entry of Chuck Jones' The Three Bears series.
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For Walter Lantz Productions he voiced Woody Woodpecker in five theatrical cartoon shorts released from 1942 to 1943.
quote:He was 20 yrs old.
Rogers enlisted as an Ensign in the United States Navy in late 1943. He was killed in the crash of a training flight at Pensacola, Florida on July 9, 1944
Here he is imitating radio stars Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy. Truly a lost talent.
Posted on 6/15/25 at 5:18 pm to auggie
quote:even from the can?
He could still roll his own Prince Albert cigarettes
Posted on 6/15/25 at 5:18 pm to Jim Rockford
During D-day, there was an artillery battery (Which name I can’t recall) that never fired in D-day and no one really ever knew why. I think it may have been the Melville battery.
I took a D-day tour of Normandy in 2007 and the guide mentioned this and said he had a very interesting experience a few weeks prior.
He mentioned the battery with another group and mentioned that no one knew why they didn’t fire. He said there was an old German man there in the back that said “I know why they didn’t fire, I was there, it was my unit”.
The old man relayed the story that there was a sergeant in that unit that got word on June 5th that his wife and child had been killed in Germany from an allied bombing raid. That night he killed the officers in his company in retaliation for the death of his wife and child. When the invasion started, they had no leadership and just never fired a shot.
I’ve never heard or seen this anywhere else and I heard it second hand but who knows, it may actually be correct. Stranger things have happened.
I took a D-day tour of Normandy in 2007 and the guide mentioned this and said he had a very interesting experience a few weeks prior.
He mentioned the battery with another group and mentioned that no one knew why they didn’t fire. He said there was an old German man there in the back that said “I know why they didn’t fire, I was there, it was my unit”.
The old man relayed the story that there was a sergeant in that unit that got word on June 5th that his wife and child had been killed in Germany from an allied bombing raid. That night he killed the officers in his company in retaliation for the death of his wife and child. When the invasion started, they had no leadership and just never fired a shot.
I’ve never heard or seen this anywhere else and I heard it second hand but who knows, it may actually be correct. Stranger things have happened.
Posted on 6/15/25 at 5:23 pm to Kafka
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He could still roll his own Prince Albert cigarettes
even from the can?
That's what he used.
He learned to do a lot of things a new way, I guess.
He became a commercial fisherman on the Chattahoochee River had his own fish market and store.
Posted on 6/15/25 at 5:24 pm to Jim Rockford
Just dropped in to say Mark Felton is the GOAT. His video reviewing his experience of going on a public tour of Buckingham Palace is particularly great 
I just searched for it, but seems he's made the video private now. Bummer. MI6 got to him
I just searched for it, but seems he's made the video private now. Bummer. MI6 got to him
Posted on 6/15/25 at 5:31 pm to auggie
quote:I guess you never heard that jokequote:That's what he used.quote:even from the can?
He could still roll his own Prince Albert cigarettes
He learned to do a lot of things a new way
Posted on 6/15/25 at 5:37 pm to Kafka
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I guess you never heard that joke
Yeah, I should've thought about him having a store with Prince Albert in the can. I just remember watching him do stuff. Pretty impressive.
Posted on 6/15/25 at 5:43 pm to Jim Rockford
The first 76mm armed Shermans, the M4A1 76(W) entered the ETO with the 2d and 3d Armored Divisions in time for Operation Cobra. The Army did not want the 76mm armed Shermans to equip the armored units landing on D-Day to prevent logistical problems, since the other Shermans had the 75mm. These Shermans also has wet storage of ammo in a glycol water mixture in the floor of the tank to prevent the "brewing up" of the earlier sponsons that had dry storage in the sponsons above the tracks. These Shermans were the cast hull Shermans, hence the "A1." Welded hull Shermans were just the M4.
Yeah, I know a LOT of essentially useless WW II technical details.
Yeah, I know a LOT of essentially useless WW II technical details.
Posted on 6/15/25 at 5:50 pm to Jim Rockford
Jimmy Stewart flew 20 combat missions over Europe during World War II. He flew as a B-24 Liberator pilot, including several missions to heavily fortified targets. His wartime service also earned him various decorations, including the Distinguished Flying Cross with two Oak Leaf Clusters, the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters, and the French Croix de Guerre with Palm.
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