Interesting Facts
-The country with the largest amount of deaths was Russia with 21 million people
-For every five german soldiers who died in WW2, 4 of them died fighting the russians
-1.5 million children died during the holocaust
-The longest battle to take place in WW2 was the battle of the Atlantic (1939-1945)
-Out of 40,000 German sailers who served on U-boats, 10,000 came back
-The battle of the Bulge had the most deaths for american soldiers to date (80,000)
-from 1940-1945 the US defense budget increased from about $1.9 billion to about $59.8 billion
-The Air Force was part of the army until it broke off after the war into a seperate branch
-The Germans used the first fighter jet in WW2, the Messerschmitt ME-262
-The Nazis stole the Harvard fight song to compose the Sieg Heil (Heil Hitler) march
-The best pilot of all the nations involved in WW2 was Erich Hartmann (German fighter pilot), with 352 kills
-On January 31, 1945 Eddie Slovik was shot by Amercians for desertion. This was the first time this has happened since the Civil War. It was also the only time in the war that an American was punished like this
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-For every five german soldiers who died in WW2, 4 of them died fighting the russians
-1.5 million children died during the holocaust
-The longest battle to take place in WW2 was the battle of the Atlantic (1939-1945)
-Out of 40,000 German sailers who served on U-boats, 10,000 came back
-The battle of the Bulge had the most deaths for american soldiers to date (80,000)
-from 1940-1945 the US defense budget increased from about $1.9 billion to about $59.8 billion
-The Air Force was part of the army until it broke off after the war into a seperate branch
-The Germans used the first fighter jet in WW2, the Messerschmitt ME-262
-The Nazis stole the Harvard fight song to compose the Sieg Heil (Heil Hitler) march
-The best pilot of all the nations involved in WW2 was Erich Hartmann (German fighter pilot), with 352 kills
-On January 31, 1945 Eddie Slovik was shot by Amercians for desertion. This was the first time this has happened since the Civil War. It was also the only time in the war that an American was punished like this
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