A Military Miscellany

For armchair generals, history buffs, and military enthusiasts everywhere, A Military Miscellany is an essential and entertaining collection of fascinating and little-known facts, anecdotes, lists, and stories from America's rich military legacy. Forgotten heroes, amazing blunders, surprising trivia, and strange-but-true stories overlooked by historians, it's all here in a book that will enlighten and amaze even the most avid student of American military history.Did you know that American soldiers have been sent to invade foreign nations or their territories more than two hundred times since Thomas Jefferson dispatched troops to North Africa in 1803 to punish Muslim pirates? Or that during the Vietnam War a can opener was called a John Wayne? Or that a downed World War II airman once trekked across Germany, through occupied France, and across the mountains into Spain to avoid capture'only to be treated as a spy because Allied military intelligence said it couldn't be done? Open this book anywhere and you'll find yourself instantly captivated. From the "peace president" who was our most frequent practitioner of gunboat diplomacy to the Revolutionary War hero whose refusal to cut his hair set off a four-year rebellion that went all the way to the White House, there's plenty of fascinating lore here'from the monumental to the trivial'in an indispensable encyclopedic work that takes up where ordinary history books leave off.

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Title of ebook: A Military Miscellany
ISBN: 9780307488251
parent-ISBN: 9780553804409
Publisher: Bantam
Pages: 208
Published: 12-2008
Released online for download: 12-10-2008
Author of eBook: Ayres, Thomas

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A Military Miscellany

U.S. MILITARY PRODUCTION IN WORLD WAR II

From mid-1940 until 1945, U.S. production of war materials overwhelmed the great Axis factories of Krupp (Germany), Fiat (Italy), and Mitsubishi (Japan). During the war, America produced:

Warplanes 296,429
Tanks 102,351
Artillery pieces 372,431
Trucks 2,455,964
Warships 87,620
Cargo ships 5,325
Aircraft bombs (in tons) 5,922,000
Small arms 20,086,061
Small-arms ammunition (rounds) 44 billion

NOTABLE QUOTE

"To American production, without which this war would have been lost."

–Joseph Stalin, offering a toast at a meeting of Allied leaders in Tehran, Iran, 1943

DATELINE

London (June 1, 1943) – Leslie Howard, who played Ashley Wilkes in Gone With the Wind, was killed when his plane was shot down. He was fifty.

RATIONED AT HOME IN WORLD WAR II

Automobiles
Meats
Automobile tires
Cheese
Gasoline
Butter
Bicycles
Coffee
Bicycle tires
Cigarettes
Shoes
Lard
Sugar
Canned fish

*From February 1942 until the end of the war, n ... read full excerpt from: A Military Miscellany ebook

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