War is scary, but humanity is not yet able to resolve issues in a civilized manner. Which means that as long as there are wars on earth, various sad but interesting facts will continually emerge.
France is not the same today! But during World War I, homosexuality was executed. But if an officer was caught in the act, he was given the opportunity to die nobly in battle.
At the very beginning of World War I there were only 50 men in the American Air Force.
You think it’s hard to become a general? George Custer is a legendary figure. He attained the rank of general at the age of 23.
In a period of 3,500 years, there were no wars on earth for only 230 years.
Often historians condemn the Soviet government for introducing ration cards. But few people today remember that Britain only abolished its ration cards in 1954.
All over the world and at all times in the armies of the world honor is given only to the right hand.
During World War II, Japanese officers who fell on the battlefield were promoted by default.
It’s hard to imagine, but the nuclear powers lost 92 nuclear warheads. They rest at the bottom of the oceans.
During World War II, the U.S. did not declare war on two countries that were allied with Hitler’s Germany. They were Finland and Thailand.
The U.S. Air Force consumed more than half of all fuel purchased by the Army.
For a while during the Cold War, the secret access code to activate nuclear weapons in the U.S. was eight zeros.
The only time a military man was not required to salute was if he was under arrest or confinement.
Blacks could not serve in the U.S. Air Force until World War II.
Alexander the Great ordered his army to shave off the hair on their heads and beards. In his opinion, long hair allowed the enemy to grab at it and chop his head off.
During World War I, one in three men between the ages of 17 and 35 in Britain were killed.
During the War of 1812, the U.S. Army burned Toronto to the ground; in turn, the British responded by burning Washington.
In all rations of the U.S. military, hot sauce is a must.
During the existence of the Warsaw Pact, there was only one time when one treaty member attacked another. That was the USSR, which attacked Czechoslovakia in 1968.
Interestingly enough, for almost five years the U.S. Army was unwilling to acknowledge the invention of the airplane by the Wright Brothers.
The doors in the nuclear missile launch silos weigh more than 500 tons.
For several decades, the American infantryman’s kit included a condom. It was needed to put it on the barrel of a rifle when it rained.