5 Most Incredible Coincidences of World War II

[Jake79]

Found this YouTube vid quite interesting thought you might want to take peek..

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[wibblywobbly]

Here's another, though from the American War of Independence.

I forget the names and places, but there was a farmer, and the first conflict took place in the land attached to his house. When the war took hold he moved his family to another farm. At the end of the war the final battle took place in the field attached to his new home. He therefore became the only person in history who had a war that started and finished in his back garden.

After the sneak attack at Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt searched for a bulletproof car. However, because government regulation prohibited spending more than $750 to buy a car, the only one they could find was Al Capone’s limo, which had been seized by the Treasury Department after he was arrested for tax evasion.”

From 1942, U.S. Marines in the Pacific used the Navajo language as their secret code. The language didn’t have the vocabulary for existing WWII technology, so existing words had to be given new meanings. For example, the word for “hummingbird” (da-he-ti-hi) became code for fighter plane. Around 400 Navajo Indians (Code Talkers) were trained to use the code, and the Japanese never cracked it.

Hitler kept a framed photo of Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company, on his desk. Henry Ford also kept a framed photo of the Nazi leader on his desk in Dearborn, Michigan.