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For the brutal Omaha Beach scene in ‘Saving Private Ryan’ Spielberg hired several dozen army amputees with prosthetic limbs so that he could have their arms and legs blown off in a more realistic fashion. More than $11 million was spent and 1,000 extras used for the infamous scene.

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The double leg amputee war veteran in the film "Battleship" is played by an actual double leg amputee war veteran.

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1. Arunima Sinha, an Indian national (now, ex) volleyball player. She was pushed out from a moving train by thieves. Immediately, a train coming in from a parallel track crushed her leg, forcing it to be amputated later on. Today, she is the first female amputee to climb Mt. Everest.

2. A Canadian military veteran amputee had to submit annual paperwork to prove his legs were still missing in order to continue his disability benefits.

3. In 2011 a (male) amputee received the worlds first leg transplant from a female donor. He recovered successfully and had regained limited use of his legs. Unfortunately, in 2013 they had to be amputated after an unrelated illness had forced him to stop taking anti-rejection drugs.

4. In In 2011 Nike launched a campaign “I am the bullet in the chamber” featuring Oscar Pistorius, a double leg amputee sprint runner. In 2013 Pistorius shot his girlfriend at home. Since then campaign's slogan has a much darker meaning.

5. Travis Mills a US 82nd Airborne Army Staff Sgt who was critically injured losing most of his arms and legs while on patrol in Afghanistan to a IED. He's one of only five quadruple amputees from the Iraq & Afghanistan wars to survive this type of injury. His motto: "Never Give Up, Never Quit"

6. In Forrest Gump to make Lt. Dan look like an amputee they created a special wheelchair to hide his legs.

7. Amputees who experience phantom limb pain in their amputated arm or leg can alleviate that pain using a mirror box, which tricks the brain into believing that a mirror image of their existing limb is their amputated limb.

8. Victoria Modesta The World`s first Amputee Pop Star did a voluntary below-the-knee leg amputation to improve her mobility.

9. RAF fighter pilot Douglas Bader. As a double leg amputee he fought in the Battle of Britain, was shot down, and escaped from German prison camps several times eventually leading to his internment at Colditz.

10. David Sharp died on his descent from Mt. Everest when he stopped to rest in Green Boots cave despite being passed by 40 people who did not or could not help. When it was all over, a good deal of the blame for the death of Sharp was placed on Mark Inglis a double leg amputee.