What astonishes you the most about WW2?

Question

Any event, person, action or circumstance that kind of makes you question it or wonder about it.

Answer 1

Foo fighters "The Foo Fighters" seem, however, to be of a slightly different genre from the usual UFO lights. "FOOs" are usually reddish or yellowish, soft and diffuse, unattached to any tangible object and extremely mobile. UFO's, on the other hand, have hard, bluish-white lights and are brilliant, functional, and flickering. ' Hard, bluish, white lighted are Scouts. Solid. Scouts curious about the last war, able to detect electronic-magnetic fields in equipment and so kept themselves at a stage of molecular dissolution ie. Stasis. That they could observe yet not get hurt by whatever wespons "We" had. Knowingly or unknowingly. Some of our electrom's equipment could of had an odd effect upon functionality of L-M observer scout ships & caused some consternation to the L-M's. A peacfull naively curios bunch of inadvertant havoc wreakers, as you will ever see. Jemi'

Answer 2

Many Things -

1)That the United States (and most of the rest of the world) turned away a ship full of Jewish refugees seeking asylum from Germany, condemning them to die in concentration camps. 2) That the world ignored the concentration camps until the war was in full blast
3) That Japan and Germany so quickly became our allies after the defeats.
4) That our Navy could not defeat Japan's Navy and it took the atomic bomb to end the war
5) That our country fought as one nation instead of squabbling
6) The pictures of the lines of men waiting to enlist in the armed forces on the day after Pearl Harbor
7) That many of us have forgotten how to make sacrifices we made in WWII
8) FDR ruling our country in one of its most diffficult hours while fighting grave illness
9) The Real 5 Sullivans on which Saving Private Ryan was based.
10) Midway, Bataan, France, Normandy - so many lives

Answer 3

Why Hitler never invaded Malta. Why he persisted with the attempt to take Stalingrad after it was clearly exposed as a failed strategy. Why the US persisted for over a year with faulty submarine torpedoes even after they knew their equipment was defective. These three events were crucial and a change could have radically altered the course of the war.

Answer 4

The terror bomding campaigns at the end of the Euro theater carried out by the RAF and Army Air Corps. We intentionally targetting important cultural sites and intentionally created firestorms to kill civilians. We openly attacked non-military targets regularly.

Answer 5

How close the Axis came to winning. In fact, to a certain extent, you could say the only reason they didn't win was due to the arrogance and inflexibility of their own leaders.

Answer 6

Well not so much WW2, but I always wondered how people let that madman, Hitler come to power

Answer 7

The tecnological leap from using horses at the begining to rockets and bombs capable of destroying the world at the end.

Answer 8

That our current Pope was a member of the Hitler Youth.

Answer 9

How we managed to fight for 37 days to Capture little dingy Iwo Jima, but it only took us one day to take Normandy.

Answer 10

my grandpa was on the USS New York when it got hit and he survived! and very glad he did because i couldn't ask for a better grandpa than him!