world war 2?

Question

wat r sum facts about the workd war 2? any websites?

Answer 1

start from here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II

Answer 2

World War II was fought from 1939-1945. Germany's Adolf Hitler started the war. He started invading smaller countries such as Poland, Czechslovakia, Denmark, etc. Also, another interesting fact about World War II was the concentration camps. The concentration camps were used during World War II as Hitler's way to kill all Jews, known as the Holocaust. Over 6 million Jews were killed in these concentration camps. Another fact is the United States was not involved in the war until December 7, 1941, the day Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Over 2,000 people were killed on this day. Then President Harry Truman came up with the idea to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan using what was known as the atomic bomb. After the two atomic bombs were dropped, Japan surrendered. Then Italy, who joined Germany at the start of the war, joined up with the US to invade Germany and bring down Hitler, who was hiding in a bomb shelter beneath Berlin, Germany. Hitler ended up killing his wife, Eva Braun, and then he took his own life. Then Germany surrendered, thus ending World War II. Those are some very interesting facts about World War II

Answer 3

Watch the History channel

Answer 4

This website looks interesting... http://www.euronet.nl/users/wilfried/ww2/ww2.htm

Answer 5

World War 2 Facts

* The first German serviceman killed in the war was killed by the Japanese (China, 1937)
* The first American serviceman killed was killed by the Russians (Finland 1940).
* 80% of Soviet males born in 1923 didn't survive World War 2
* The highest ranking American killed was Lt. Gen. Lesley McNair, killed by the US Army Air Corps.
* Between 1939 and 1945 the Allies dropped 3.4 million tons of bombs, An average of about 27,700 tons of bombs each month.
* 12,000 heavy bombers were shot down in World War 2
* 2/3 of Allied bomber crews were lost for each plane destroyed
* 3 or 4 ground men were wounded for each killed
* 6 bomber crewmen were killed for each one wounded
* Over 100,000 Allied bomber crewmen were killed over Europe
* There were 433 Medals of Honor awarded during World War 2, 219 of them were given after the receipiant's death
* From 6 June 1944 to 8 May 1945 in Europe the Allies had 200,000 dead and 550,000 wounded
* The youngest US serviceman was 12 year old Calvin Graham, USN. He was wounded in combat and given a Dishonorable Discharge for lying about his age. (His benefits were later restored by act of Congress).
* At the time of Pearl Harbor, the top US Navy command was called CINCUS (pronounced “sink us”), the shoulder patch of the US Army’s 45th Infantry division was the swastika, and Hitler’s private train was named “Amerika”. All three were soon changed for PR purposes.
* Germany lost 110 Division Commanders in combat
* 40,000 men served on U-Boats during World War 2; 30,000 never returned
* More US servicemen died in the Air Corps that the Marine Corps. While completing the required 30 missions, your chance of being killed was 71%. Not that bombers were helpless. A B-17 carried 4 tons of bombs and 1.5 tons of machine gun ammo. The US 8th Air Force shot down 6,098 fighter planes, 1 for every 12,700 shots fired.
* Germany’s power grid was much more vulnerable than realized. One estimate is that if just 1% of the bombs dropped on German industry had instead been dropped on power plants, German industry would have collapsed.
* Generally speaking, there was no such thing as an average fighter pilot. You were either an ace or a target. For instance, Japanese ace Hiroyoshi Nishizawa shot down over 80 planes. He died while a passenger on a cargo plane.
* It was a common practice on fighter planes to load every 5th found with a tracer round to aid in aiming. That was a mistake. The tracers had different ballistics so (at long range) if your tracers were hitting the target, 80% of your rounds were missing. Worse yet, the tracers instantly told your enemy he was under fire and from which direction. Worst of all was the practice of loading a string of tracers at the end of the belt to tell you that you were out of ammo. That was definitely not something you wanted to tell the enemy. Units that stopped using tracers saw their success rate nearly double and their loss rate go down.
* When allied armies reached the Rhine, the first thing men did was pee in it. This was pretty universal from the lowest private to Winston Churchill (who made a big show of it) and Gen. Patton (who had himself photographed in the act).
* German Me-264 bombers were capable of bombing New York City but it wasn’t worth the effort.
* A number of air crewmen died of farts. (ascending to 20,000 ft. in an un-pressurized aircraft causes intestinal gas to expand 300%!)
* Germany lost 40-45% of their aircraft during World War 2 to accidents
* The Russians destroyed over 500 German aircraft by ramming them in midair (they also sometimes cleared minefields by marching over them). “It takes a brave man not to be a hero in the Red Army”. - Joseph Stalin
* The average German officer slot had to be refilled 9.2 times
* The US Army had more ships that the US Navy.
* The German Air Force had 22 infantry divisions, 2 armor divisions, and 11 paratroop divisions. None of them were capable of airborne operations. The German Army had paratroops who WERE capable of airborne operations.
* When the US Army landed in North Africa, among the equipment brought ashore were 3 complete Coca Cola bottling plants.
* 84 German Generals were executed by Hitler
* Among the first “Germans” captured at Normandy were several Koreans. They had been forced to fight for the Japanese Army until they were captured by the Russians and forced to fight for the Russian Army until they were captured by the Germans and forced to fight for the German Army until they were capture by the US Army.
* The Graf Spee never sank, The scuttling attempt failed and the ship was bought by the British. On board was Germany’s newest radar system.
* One of Japan’s methods of destroying tanks was to bury a very large artillery shell with on ly the nose exposed. When a tank came near the enough a soldier would whack the shell with a hammer. “Lack of weapons is no excuse for defeat.” – Lt. Gen. Mataguchi
* Following a massive naval bombardment, 35,000 US and Canadian troops stormed ashore at Kiska. 21 troops were killed in the fire-fight. It would have been worse if there had been Japanese on the island.
* The MISS ME was an unarmed Piper Cub. While spotting for US artillery her pilot saw a similar German plane doing the same thing. He dove on the German plane and he and his co-pilot fired their pistols damaging the German plane enough that it had to make a forced landing. Whereupon they landed and took the Germans prisoner. It is unknown where they put them since the MISS ME only had two seats.
* Most members of the Waffen SS were not German.
* Air attacks caused 1/3 of German Generals' deaths
* By D-Day, the Germans had 1.5 million railway workers operating 988,000 freight cars and used 29,000 per day
* The only nation that Germany declared war on was the USA.
* During the Japanese attack on Hong Kong, British officers objected to Canadian infantrymen taking up positions in the officer’s mess. No enlisted men allowed!
* By D-Day, 35% of all German soldiers had been wounded at least once, 11% twice, 6% three times, 2% four times and 2% more than 4 times
* Nuclear physicist Niels Bohr was rescued in the nick of time from German occupied Denmark. While Danish resistance fighters provided covering fire he ran out the back door of his home stopping momentarily to grab a beer bottle full of precious “heavy water”. He finally reached England still clutching the bottle, which contained beer. Perhaps some German drank the heavy water…
* Germany lost 136 Generals, which averages out to be 1 dead General every 2 weeks