Ww1 Ww2 facts
While investigating facts about Ww1 Ww2, I found out little known, but curios details like:
James Hard, a US Civil War veteran who died at 111 years old, living long enough to see both WW1 and WW2. We went from rows of musket fire to nuclear arms within his lifetime.
The township of Thierville, France suffered no losses in country’s last five wars: WW1, the Franco-Prussian War, WW2, the First Indochina War, and the Algerian War. All the soldiers who took part in these wars returned home.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 42 of the best facts about Ww1 Ww2 I managed to collect.
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The woods oldest grape vine is 500 years old and found in Slovenia. It has survived Napoleonic wars, WW1, and bombing by the Nazis in WW2. It still produces 35-55kg of grapes and 100 bottles (250 ML each) of wine are produced each year.
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Both Churchill and Charles de Gaulle considered WW1 and WW2 to be a single conflict, called the Second Thirty Years War
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Anton Ludwig August von Mackensen, a German Field Marshal who served in the Military during the Franco Prussian War, WW1 and WW2. He witnessed Germany when it was the Kingdom of Prussia, the German Empire, Weimar Republic Germany, Nazi Germany and the Federal Republic of Germany.
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Archie, son of Teddy Roosevelt, was wounded by an enemy grenade in WW2 which shattered the same knee which had been injured in WW1 and for which he had been earlier medically retired; This made him the only American to ever be classified as 100% disabled for the same wound in two different wars.
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Hitler made France sign their armistice for their surrender in WW2, in the same railway carriage as Germany signed their armistice when they lost the war in WW1
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Canada recruited lumberjacks into its military. The Canadian Forestry Corps in WW1 and WW2 logged timber for buildings, railroads, and airfields in the UK and in continental Europe.
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Native Americans operated as "code talkers" during WW1 and WW2, using their languages for secret communication of intelligence. The Comanche code word for tank was "turtle", bomber was "pregnant airplane", machine gun was "sewing machine" and Adolf Hitler was referred to as "crazy white man".
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About Marie Marvingt,“La fiancée du danger”, an accomplished sportswoman (alpinism, cycling, winter sports) who could swim 4 km by the age of 5. She fought in WW1, was a nurse in WW2; had driving, pilot, and balloon licences; studied medicine, law, had a degree in literature & spoke 4 languages.
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Six of the top ten deadliest wars were in China. Three of them inflicted more casualties than WW1. One possibly more than WW2.
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Guam's Apra Harbor is the only place in the world where sunken ships from WW1 and WW2 are touching.
Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart, a veteran of the Boer War, WW1, and WW2. He was shot multiple times, was in two plane crashes, and tunnelled out of a POW camp, among other badassery. Describing his experience of WW1, he wrote "Frankly, I had enjoyed the War." - source
The Uncle Sam, "I Want You" poster was used in WW1, not WW2! - source
Jeannette Rankin, the first woman to hold federal office in the US, was also the only member of Congress opposed to both WW1 and WW2. She was the first and only woman Montana elected for Congress. - source
French and German soldiers suffered more causalities fighting each other in a single battle in WW1 (Verdun; 1,250,000) than they did while fighting each other in the whole of WW2.
The USS Texas is the only remaining ship that served in both WW1 and WW2.
Frederick Joubert Duquesne, a South African Boer during the Second Boer war who was captured four times throughout the war and escaped on all occasions going on to become a German spy in both WW1 and WW2.
There were roughly 620,000 deaths in the Civil War.20,000-ish less that the total American deaths in all other conflicts (644,000). Including WW1, WW2, and Vietnam
The UK & colonies suffered ~900,000 total deaths in WW1, compared to 'only' ~450,000 in WW2
About MOH recipient "Fast Eddie" Rickenbaker, the American "Ace of Aces" in WW1. A race car driver and businessman, he was also shot down in WW2 and survived 23 days in the Pacific Ocean.
