Interesting Facts and Stories

Hitler’s nephew, William Patrick Hitler (March 12, 1911 – July 14, 1987) enlisted in the US Navy in 1944.-
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  1. Never fly straight and level for more than 30 seconds in the combat area.
  2. INITIATIVE, AGGRESSION, AIR DISCIPLINE, and TEAMWORK are words that MEAN something in Air Fighting.
rules sometimes WORK
 
Louis said:
Hitler’s nephew, William Patrick Hitler (March 12, 1911 – July 14, 1987) enlisted in the US Navy in 1944.-
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Hitler's father, Alois Hitler (1837–1903), was the illegitimate child of Maria Anna Schicklgruber.
Because the baptismal register did not show the name of his father, Alois initially bore his mother's surname,Schicklgruber. In 1842, Johann Georg Hiedler married Alois's mother, Maria Anna. After she died in 1847 and Johann Georg Hiedler in 1856, Alois was brought up in the family of Hiedler's brother, Johann Nepomuk Hiedler.
In 1876, Alois was legitimated and the baptismal register changed by a priest to register Johann Georg Hiedler as Alois's father (recorded as Georg Hitler). Alois then assumed the surname Hitler,also spelled as Hiedler, Hüttler, or Huettler. The Hitler surname is probably based on "one who lives in a hut" (Standard German Hütte for hut) or on "shepherd" (Standard German hüten for to guard); alternatively, it may be derived from the Slavic words Hidlar or Hidlarcek.

Nazi official Hans Frank suggested that Alois's mother had been employed as a housekeeper for a Jewish family in Graz and that the family's 19-year-old son, Leopold Frankenberger, had fathered Alois.Because no Frankenberger was registered in Graz during that period, and no record of Leopold Frankenberger's existence has been produced, historians dismiss the claim that Alois's father was Jewish

in the navy.. there are o ..'wrong holes...' lol

in the navy

alphoso hitler.. Seen in this clip with the refried beans.
Went on to rule Paraguay for 8 years.
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Fabian Escalante, born in Cuba in 1941, who was long tasked with protecting the life of Fidel Castro, contends that there have been 638 separate CIA assassination schemes or attempts on Castro's life.-

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Here are just a few of the methods:

1. Femme fatale. Marita Lorenz, just one of many women Castro counted as a mistress, allegedly accepted a deal from the CIA in which she would feed him capsules filled with poison. She managed to get as far as smuggling the pills into his bedroom in her jar of cold cream, but the pills dissolved in the cream and she doubted her ability to force-feed Castro face lotion, and she also just chickened out. According to Lorenz, Castro somehow figured out her plan and offered her his gun. “I can’t do it, Fidel,” she told him.

2. Poisoned wetsuit.

While there’s nothing suspicious about receiving random diving gear from your enemy right in the middle of the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the CIA gave it a shot. In 1975, the Senate Intelligence Committee claimed it had "concrete evidence" of a plan to offer Castro a wetsuit lined with spores and bacteria that would give him a skin disease (and maybe worse). The plan supposedly involved American lawyer James B. Donovan, who would present Castro with the suit when he went to negotiate the release of the Bay of Pigs prisoners. A 1975 AP report said the plan was abandoned "because Donovan gave Castro a different diving suit on his own initiative."

3. Ballpoint hypodermic syringe. An ordinary-looking pen would be rigged with a hypodermic needle so fine that Castro wouldn’t notice when someone bumped into him with the pen and injected him with an extremely potent poison.

4. Exploding cigar. But this was no parlor trick – this cigar would have been packed with enough real explosives to take Fidel’s head off. In 1967, the Saturday Evening Post reported that a New York City police officer had been propositioned with the idea and hoped to carry it out during Castro's United Nations visit in September 1960.

5. Contaminated cigar. They may have given up on the TNT stogie, but the idea of spiking his smokes was still being floated around. The CIA even went as far as to recruit a double agent who would slip Castro a cigar filled with botulin, a toxin that would kill the leader in short order. The double agent was allegedly given the cigars in February of 1961, but he apparently got cold feet.

6. Exploding conch shell. Knowing that Castro liked to scuba dive, the CIA made plans to plant an explosive device in a conch shell at his favorite spot. They plotted to make the shell brightly colored and unusual looking so it would be sure to attract Castro’s attention, drawing him close enough to kill him when the bomb inside went off.

7. Nair. Well, maybe not that brand specifically, but according to that 1975 Senate Intelligence Committee report, the U.S. believed that messing with Castro’s beard was messing with the man’s power. The CIA figured that the loss of the beard would show Cubans that Castro was weak and fallible. A half-baked scheme was hatched to use thallium salt, the chemical in depilatory products such as Nair, in Castro’s shoes or in his cigar. The chemical would be absorbed or inhaled and cause the famous facial hair to fall out. (Wait, wasn’t this an episode of Get Smart?)

8. LSD. In what was mostly an effort to discredit Fidel, not kill him, a radio station where Castro was giving a live broadcast would be bombarded with an aerosol spray containing a substance similar to LSD. When Fidel had the requisite freak out live on the air, Cubans would think he had lost his mind and stop trusting him.

9. Handkerchief teeming with deadly bacteria. The CIA was seemingly obsessed with covering Fidel in harmful bacteria and toxins, because they also considered giving him a germ-covered hankie that would make him very ill.

10. Poisoned milkshake. According to Escalante, the closest the CIA ever came to killing Castro was a deadly dessert drink in 1963. The attempt went awry when the pill stuck to the freezer where the waiter-assassin at the Havana Hilton was supposed to retrieve it. When he tried to unstick it, the capsule ripped open.

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Loretta Perfectus Walsh (April 22, 1896 – August 6, 1925) became the first American active-duty Navy woman, and the first woman allowed to serve as a woman, in any of the United States armed forces other than as a nurse, when she enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve on March 17, 1917.- By the war was officially declared on 6 April, 200 women had joined her.-
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Master Sergeant John Wood (June 5, 1911 – July 21, 1950) is the official hangman at the war trials. With Joseph Malta (a military policeman), carried out the Nuremberg executions of ten former top leaders of the Third Reich on October 16, 1946 after they were sentenced to death at the Nuremberg Trials. He executed a total of 347 people during his 15-year career.-
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Master Sergeant John Wood (June 5, 1911 – July 21, 1950) is the official hangman at the war trials. With Joseph Malta (a military policeman), carried out the Nuremberg executions of ten former top leaders of the Third Reich on October 16, 1946 after they were sentenced to death at the Nuremberg Trials. He executed a total of 347 people during his 15-year career.-
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that is truely creepy.
to have been the hangman.
He must have made a pact with at least himself.
[before law and god]
to end 347 lives. then again .
say shultz of gd inf. a mg34 driver could kill many more and not blink.
his gun could in say russia have 1000 lives gone away.

what is creepy is the noose.
where it gets personal
 
How's this for a fun read? Battle for Castle Itter. Such an unbelievable story I'm surprised Hollywood hasn't picked it up, no joke. It has it all: daring rescue mission of French prisoners stuck in a castle, diehard SS troops who will stop at nothing to seize it, and a handful of Americans and their former Wermacht foes fighting side by side in the final battle of WWII in Western Europe.
Also, "The arrival of the eagerly anticipated rescue force left Castle Itter's French "guests" decidedly unimpressed. The former prisoners had been expecting a column of armor supported by masses of heavily armed American soldiers. What they got was a lone tank, seven Americans, and—to their chagrin—a truckload of armed Germans."

Battle for Castle Itter - Wikipedia
From Historynet.com, a much more detailed description (recommended)
 
Franco Cesana, born Bologna, Italy on september 20, 1931, was Italy's youngest partisan during WW2.- Franco was shot by Germans while on a scouting mission in the mountains in September 14, 1944.-
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The only general to land at Normandy, by sea, with the first wave of troops was Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., the son of former president Teddy Roosevelt. He was also the only American to fight at Normandy alongside his son — Theodore Jr. was 56, and his fourth child, Quentin Roosevelt II (named after his late uncle), was a 24 year-old captain at the invasion.-

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Awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star, Purple Heart, Legion of Honor, and Croix de Guerre.-

When General Omar Bradley was asked to name the single most heroic action he had ever seen in combat, he replied: "Ted Roosevelt on Utah Beach."

Ted Jr. died of a heart attack one month after the Utah Beach landings, and is buried next to Quentin in Normandy, France.-
 
Neil Wilkinson was serving on HMS Intrepid when he shot down Skyhawk fighter jet on May 27, 1982 during the Falklands war.-

He was only doing his job, but the idea he had killed another human tormented him. He added: “I was seeing this aircraft every day with the black smoke trailing behind. I thought, ‘He’s dead, there’s no way anyone could get out of that’.”

But in 2007 he saw Mariano Velasco telling of his ordeal on a TV documentary to mark the 25th anniversary of the war. When he described how he was shot down and ejected, Neil knew he must have been his victim from the description of events.

Military record checks confirmed his belief and he set about tracking down Mariano. Neil contacted him by email and after five years of long-distance conversation they met in 2011.-

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from Mirror
 
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Neil Wilkinson was serving on HMS Intrepid when he shot down Skyhawk fighter jet on May 27, 1982 during the Falklands war.-

He was only doing his job, but the idea he had killed another human tormented him. He added: “I was seeing this aircraft every day with the black smoke trailing behind. I thought, ‘He’s dead, there’s no way anyone could get out of that’.”

But in 2007 he saw Mariano Velasco telling of his ordeal on a TV documentary to mark the 25th anniversary of the war. When he described how he was shot down and ejected, Neil knew he must have been his victim from the description of events.

Military record checks confirmed his belief and he set about tracking down Mariano. Neil contacted him by email and after five years of long-distance conversation they met in 2011.-

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On june 1942, RAF pilot Flight Lieutenant Ken Gatward and his navigator, Flight Sergeant George Fern, volunteered for the audacious mission, which was planned following intelligence reports that German troops were parading down the Champs-Elysees every day between 12.15 and 12.45 pm.-

On 12 june Gatward and Fern took off in their Bristol Beaufighter from Thorney Island, West Sussex, flew over the English Channel into occupied France and headed towards Paris at low level. Gatward later recalled, “I’ll never forget the astonishment of the crowd in the Paris streets as we swept low at rooftop level. They had been taken completely by surprise.”-

Gatward flew at just 30ft down the Champs-Elysees and Fern dropped the French Tricolour on top of Paris’ famous monument. Gatward then flew on to the Gestapo’s Paris HQ, the former Ministere de la Marine, raked it with 20mm shells – scattering its SS guards in panic – and Fern dropped a second Tricolour on the building.-

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The daring duo’s spectacular raid boosted the morale of oppressed Parisians and, when the news broke at home, lifted the spirits of the beleaguered British too. Gatward was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and both he and Fern were feted as heroes.-

from abroadintheyard & lebanontimes
 
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