Interesting Facts and Stories

Actress Marilyn Hare (1923/1981) set out to kiss 10,000 soldiers in order to raise the morale of troops fighting in WWII, 1942.
A few months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor the U.S. army was still trying to recuperate and make a full fledged fighting force to send out on two the fronts to confront Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany. Many of these men were drafted and after finding themselves in Boot camp they did not know what was going to become of them.
To boost the young recruits morale before going off to war the 18 year old actor Marilyn Hare made a goal to kiss 10,000 soldiers before they were shipped off into the two fronts. On her first day she kissed 733 men.
'My only regret,' say Marilyn, 'is that I have but two lips to give for my country.'
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He survived the Titanic, both world wars and ended up committing suicide.

Frederick Fleet (born in Liverpool on Oct 15, 1887) was a British sailor, crewman and survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic after it struck an iceberg on 14 April 1912. Employed as a lookout aboard the Titanic, it was Fleet who first sighted the iceberg, ringing the bridge to proclaim, "Iceberg, right ahead!" Fleet testified at the inquiries that if he had been issued binoculars, he would have seen the iceberg sooner, because it was a blue iceberg in calm seas on a moonless night.

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Fleet survived the ship's sinking and later served in the merchant service through WW1 and again in WW II, after having been unemployed in the 1930s.

When his wife died shortly after Christmas 1964, he was evicted and he then became depressed and committed suicide by hanging two weeks later in Jan. 10, 1965. Fleet was buried in a pauper's grave at Hollybrook Cemetery, in Southampton.
The grave went unmarked until 1993, when a headstone bearing an engraving of the Titanic was erected through donations by the Titanic Historical Society.

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American sailor's love of ice cream in WW2 was so great that in 1943 the navy purchased an 'ice cream barge' to act as a mobile ice cream making factory for sailors and marines. The barge was capable of producing 10 gallons of ice cream every 7 minutes.

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The barge was not the most practical ship in the Navy. The concrete boat had no engine of its own and had to be pulled around by tug boats. Regardless of any difficulty this provided, it was a sailor-favorite because it brought them a pretty good reward for service.

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The fate of the ice cream barge is unknown, but some think it may rest in a bay with other bygone ships of the era.
 
The USS Fiske photographed broken in two by a torpedo from the German U-804 submarine (commanded by Herbert Meyer 1910/1945) in 2 Aug 1944, north of the Azores.

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After attack the destroyer broke in two after 10 minutes with both parts drifting apart and eventually sinking vertically. Thirty-three of the crew died and 50 more were badly wounded. Survivors were rescued by USS Farquhar (DE-139).

The U-804 was sunk on 9 April 1945 in the Skagerrak west of Gothenburg, Sweden by rockets from RAF Mosquito aircraft (Sqdn 143 & 235). 55 dead (all hands lost)

The only success the German submarine had on war patrol was USS Fiske.
 
Rudolf von Ribbentrop (11 May 1921 – 20 May 2019), the Joachim´s son, joined an SS infantry regiment shortly after the war began in 1939, and he went on to serve in military units in Czechoslovakia, France and the Soviet Union. He was a tank commander during the Battle of the Bulge.

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During his warfare he suffered various injuries:
Fragment in upper right arm 30 May 1941, Bullet wound in left forearm 2 Sept 194, Shot in back 5 Feb 1943, Wounded in back by strafing enemy fighter 3 June 1944, Shell fragment in mouth 20 Dec 1944.
At the end of war Rudolf von Ribbentrop handed himself over to American troops south of the Danube River and was sent to a succession of prisons and camps for three years before being released from a French military prison in 1948.
He successfully engaged in trade in Frankfurt am Main and Wiesbaden. In 1960 he married Baroness Ilse-Maria von Munchausen.
Lived to be 98 years old.
 
Bear with this until the end, it's worth it.....Jack Hargreaves was quite a character.


Steve
 
There’s a movie I enjoyed starring Tony Curtis called “The Great Imposter” about Demara.

From Wikipedia:

Demara was said to possess a true photographic memory and was widely reputed to have an extraordinary IQ. He was apparently able to memorize necessary techniques from textbooks and worked on two cardinal rules: The burden of proof is on the accuser and when in danger, attack. He described his own motivation as "Rascality, pure rascality".

“Demara's impersonations included a naval surgeon, a civil engineer, a sheriff's deputy, an assistant prison warden, a doctor of applied psychology, a hospital orderly, a lawyer, a child-care expert, a Benedictine monk, a Trappist monk, an editor, a cancer researcher, and a teacher.”

While at the Brothers of Christian Instruction, he became acquainted with a young Canadian surgeon named Joseph C. Cyr. That led to his most famous exploit, in which he masqueraded as Cyr, working as a trauma surgeon aboard HMCS Cayuga, a Royal Canadian Navy destroyer, during the Korean War.
He managed to improvise successful major surgeries and fend off infection with generous amounts of penicillin.
His most notable surgical practices were performed on some sixteen Korean combat injuries who were loaded onto the Cayuga.
All eyes turned to Demara, the only "surgeon" on board, as it became obvious that several of the injured soldiers would require major surgery or certainly die.
After ordering personnel to transport these variously injured patients into the ship's operating room and prep them for surgery, Demara disappeared to his room with a textbook on general surgery and proceeded to speed-read the various surgeries he was now forced to perform, including major chest surgery.
None of the soldiers died as a result of Demara's surgeries. Apparently, the removal of a bullet from a wounded man ended up in Canadian newspapers.
One person reading the reports was the mother of the real Joseph Cyr; her son at the time of "his" service in Korea was actually practicing medicine in Grand Falls, New Brunswick. When news of the impostor reached the Cayuga, still on duty off Korea, Captain James Plomer at first refused to believe Demara was not a surgeon (and not Joseph Cyr). However, faced with the embarrassment of having allowed an impostor into the navy's ranks, Canadian officials chose not to press charges.
Instead, Demara was quietly dismissed from the Royal Canadian Navy and forced to return to the United States.

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The Great Impostor (1960) - IMDb

The Great Impostor: Directed by Robert Mulligan. With Tony Curtis, Karl Malden, Edmond O'Brien, Arthur O'Connell. Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr. is a versatile man who gets his kicks out of impersonating a marine, a monk, a navy surgeon and a prison warden, eventually getting in trouble with the law...
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Louis said:
He survived the Titanic, both world wars and ended up committing suicide.

Frederick Fleet (born in Liverpool on Oct 15, 1887) was a British sailor, crewman and survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic after it struck an iceberg on 14 April 1912. Employed as a lookout aboard the Titanic, it was Fleet who first sighted the iceberg, ringing the bridge to proclaim, "Iceberg, right ahead!" Fleet testified at the inquiries that if he had been issued binoculars, he would have seen the iceberg sooner, because it was a blue iceberg in calm seas on a moonless night.

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Fleet survived the ship's sinking and later served in the merchant service through WW1 and again in WW II, after having been unemployed in the 1930s.

When his wife died shortly after Christmas 1964, he was evicted and he then became depressed and committed suicide by hanging two weeks later in Jan. 10, 1965. Fleet was buried in a pauper's grave at Hollybrook Cemetery, in Southampton.
The grave went unmarked until 1993, when a headstone bearing an engraving of the Titanic was erected through donations by the Titanic Historical Society.

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Should gone to Specsavers
 
The Plot M, is located on former grounds of the Argonne National Laboratory in Cook County, Illinois. The site contains buried radioactive waste from contaminated building debris, radioactive material from nuclear research conducted here 1945-1949.and the Chicago Pile-1 (CP-1/CP-2), and Chicago Pile-3 (CP-3) nuclear reactors. Plot M" was the code name used for the disposal ground.

At the center of Site A, Plot M, former location of the Manhattan Project, a granite marker identifies the burial location of Chicago Pile-1, the world's first nuclear reactor.

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