Most of us have seen “Saving Private Ryan”, the critically acclaimed movie that won 5 Oscars in 1998. Here is a set of rare photos and some weird facts that you might not know from WWII:
This rare photo shows a German soldier drop his Mauser rifle the moment he is killed
Russians killed the first American serviceman
Over 100,000 Allied bomber crewmen were killed over Europe
More U.S. servicemen died in the Air Corps that the Marine Corps
Polish Catholic midwife Stanisława Leszczyńska delivered 3,000 babies at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland
British soldiers only got three sheets of toilet paper a day, while Americans got 22
Only 139 cars were were manufactured during the entire war in the United States
Four of every five German soldiers killed in the war died on the Eastern Front
Only 20 percent of the males born in the Soviet Union in 1923 survived the war
Calvin Graham, 12, was the youngest soldier in the United States military
Only one out of every four men serving on U-boats survived
The Hamburger was called ‘Liberty stake’ during WW2 in America to avoid confusion with the sound of German city Hamburg
Adolf Hitler and Henry Ford had a good relationship, keeping a framed picture of each other on their desk
Mexico was Japan’s largest spy circle
The only elephant in the Berlin zoo was killed by the Allied forces’ first bomb raid
Hiro Onda, an Imperial Japanese officer surrendered 30 years after the end of WW2 in 1974, when his former commander traveled to the Philippines were he was hiding to relieve him of his duties
60,000 dogs served in the Red Army during WW2. They carried 700,000 wounded soldiers from the battlefields, detected 4 million mines, and destroyed 300 tanks
This photo was captured by an SS officer. It shows the last jew in Vinnytsa, Ukraine
Roza Shanina. This beautiful, 19-year-old girl was lethal with 54 confirmed kills
