Some bats would have had a harder time dispensing of their bombs...
The first one about farts does not seem probable...sky divers today don’t seem to have this problem, and how many paratroopers were dropping from 20k feet anyway?
#5, Pres Bush crashed with a backseater who died, the other crash survivors were from other planes on the same mission.
Number 3 is horse manure. My grandfather went over the top seven times before he was hit. Maybe adding the number of total soldiers and of that total that included REMFs and other rear area support that would not be involved in combat, that number sort of fits. Just counting line soldiers you would not have a number like that one- they were involved in heavy close combat with most all shooting. Men back then were men, not snowflakes.
There were several rifles found in Gettysburg that had been loaded four or five times. And never fired. The soldiers just wouldn’t shoot.
This is extremely common. And has been for hundreds of years.
This is why artillery and air warfare are effective. It is “detached.”
Read “On Killing” by Steve Pressman.
My dad was an original Angel of the 11th Airborne Division
(1943). In the 1980s & 90s he and my mom hosted an annual
BBQ for the General Joe Swing chapter of the 11th AB Assn.
Two of the regular attendees were from the same company of
the 511PIR/11AB. In parachute training in late ‘43 one of the
2 guys had his chute only partially open. The other guy
was able to snag the chute w/his legs and they both landed
safely. Fun to see these two hug each other at the annual BBQ.
“Men Against Fire” by SLA Marshall documented the failure of combat infantry men to fire their weapons in combat. It was a failure of training. They had been taught to take careful aim and not waste ammunition. Works fine on a target range with large red bullseyes. Most of the time you don’t see those in combat. Major training change to emphasize volume of fire and difficult to see targets.
The bats were actually going to carry incendiary bomblets not plastic explosives.
***4. A Japanese soldier, Hiroo Onoda, who never heard the war was over in 1945,***
Same for Guam. While there in 1968, the fences alongside the roads had warning signs telling us not to go into the jungle.
Several years later, one or two Japanese soldiers were pulled out of there.
When ascending in an unpressurized plane to 20,000 feet, it causes intestinal gas to expand 300%. I guess some guys couldn’t fart quickly enough.
That is why astronauts eat special diet - steak, eggs, toast, coffee/orange juice
Avoid gas producing foods like cabbage, corn and yes BEANS!
High protein, low residue leaves little matter in intestinal
tract...
Wow. All those mountain climbers scaling Mt. Everest. 29,000 feet and hope they don’t eat beans for lunch that day.
I wonder if the Emperor of Japan will apologize for his soldiers eating American pows?
George H.W.Bush took a lot of ridicule for vomiting at the state dinner with the Japanese Prime Minister. Cannibalism is a fun subject for some people.