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Salamo Arouch: The Jewish boxer forced to fight at Auschwitz in WWII

by HistoryBuff July 5, 2022, 9:24 pm

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Joseph Beyrle: Dual Soldier the only man to fight for the US and Red Army in WWII and get accommodations from both countries.

by HistoryBuff July 3, 2022, 11:23 am

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TIL About the Lykov family, who were isolated from the world for decades and didn’t even know about WWII

by whatilearned July 1, 2022, 6:47 pm

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TIL that Leo Marks, a WWII cryptographer, suspected that Germans had infiltrated the Dutch network in 1943 because all messages were being sent without any errors. To test his theory, Marks sent a message with “HH” and received “HH” in response. “HH” was a common German sign-off for “Heil Hitler.”

by whatilearned July 1, 2022, 3:47 pm

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Explorers find WWII Navy destroyer, deepest wreck discovered

by HistoryBuff June 27, 2022, 2:14 am

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TIL that the title “Triple Ace in a Day” refers to pilots who shot down 15 enemy aircraft in a single day. There have only been 5 such pilots, all of whom flew for the German Luftwaffe in WWII.

by whatilearned June 26, 2022, 8:22 pm

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TIL Philippe Pétain, the commander of the French army from 1917 until 1940, was made prime minister a few days before France fell in 1940. Once Vichy France was created, he became head of state and collaborated with the Axis. After WWII, he was spared death because of his WWI service to the country.

by whatilearned June 23, 2022, 8:58 pm

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TIL about Dick Bong: an American Flying Ace with 40 victories in the Pacific Theater of WWII.

by whatilearned June 20, 2022, 11:34 pm

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TIL that the British had a POW camp called Trent park during WWII. They would take axis prisoners of war and let them live in luxury, while secretly bugging the house. The program gave the allies lots of intel, such as the location of a V2 rocket facility.

by whatilearned June 13, 2022, 10:30 pm

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TIL 94 US WWII Servicemen executed by the US Military are buried in “Plot E” of the Oise Aisne American Cemetery in France, a section designated for “the dishonored dead”. Hedges hide it from view, no US flag is permitted to fly over it, the graves lack headstones and it is not publicly accessible.

by whatilearned June 10, 2022, 10:01 pm

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TIL Bach wrote the Brandenburg Concertos in 1721 as part of a job application to the Margrave, which he never received a reply. The concertos were unpublished until 1850 and almost lost again during WWII

by whatilearned June 7, 2022, 7:46 am

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TIL WWII veteran Jesus Armendariz has memory loss from Alzheimer’s but can vividly remember the war.

by whatilearned June 5, 2022, 11:19 am

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