Most of us have seen “Saving Private Ryan”, the critically acclaimed movie that won 5 Oscars in 1998. Here is a set of rare photos and some weird facts that you might not know from WWII:
This rare photo shows a German soldier drop his Mauser rifle the moment he is killed
Russians killed the first American serviceman
Over 100,000 Allied bomber crewmen were killed over Europe
More U.S. servicemen died in the Air Corps that the Marine Corps
Polish Catholic midwife Stanisława Leszczyńska delivered 3,000 babies at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland
British soldiers only got three sheets of toilet paper a …read more
Source: Protothema
