32 Acts of Wartime Ingenuity, Heroism or Plain Old Dumb Luck Worthy of the Oppenheimer Treatment

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32 Acts of Wartime Ingenuity, Heroism or Plain Old Dumb Luck Worthy of the Oppenheimer Treatment

You’re welcome, Hollywood. We just rounded up a couple dozen wartime movie premises that’ll easily put butts in seats! Sure, some might be a bit too silly for Oscar contention (because we know how the Academy views those lowly comedy flicks), but either way, there’s an abundance of entertainment value here.

AROUND 400,000 MUSLIMS FOUGHT FOR BRITAIN IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. The Muslim role in the War to End All Wars is rarely discussed, but many fought and died for the victory of the Allies. The Indian Army consisted of 1.3 million soldiers, among them were 800,000 Hindu soldiers, 100,000 Sikhs and 400,000 Muslims. CRACKED.COM

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LYUDMILA PAVLICHENKO WAS A UKRAINE-BORN SNIPER FOR THE USSR. AND NOBODY WANTED TO GIVE HER THE JOB. When Pavlichenko signed up for the army, officials tried to persuade her to be a nurse. They wouldn't take girls in the army, so I had to resort to all kinds of tricks to get in, she explained. She finally persuaded officials to give her a field audition with a Red Army unit defending a hill. She is now the highest-scoring female sniper on record, with a count of 309 confirmed kills, 36 of which were enemy snipers. CRACKED.COM http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/eleanor-roosevelt-and-the-soviet-sniper-23585278/no-ist

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BENJAMIN L. SALOMON SERVED AS A FIELD DENTIST DURING WWII. Parts AND WHEN THINGS GOT REAL, НЕ WENT RAMBO. While Captain Salomon was treating the wounded, Japanese forces overwhelmed his field hospital. When four soldiers stormed the tent, Salomon shot two of them outright, kicked a knife out of another's hands, and headbutted the last into submission. Then he provided machine gun cover as his patients escaped. When Americans retook the area the next day they found Salomon dead, along with nearly 100 dead enemy troops. CRACKED.COM http://alchetron.com/Ben-L-Salomon-1382992-W

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WWII hero dog: Saving lives with style. GRACKED.COM Chips was a heroic dog during WWII, who saved the lives of many U.S. soldiers and earned prestigious awards such as a Purple Heart and Silver Star for his bravery in battle.

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Mustard gas? No problem for the Slug Brigade. CRACKED.COM Paul Bartsch's discovery of slugs' sensitivity to mustard gas in WWI led the U.S. military to use them as a warning system against toxic fumes, saving thousands of lives and becoming known as the Slug Brigade.

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TVDINNER Swanson QUICK FROZEN POT DINNER BEEF ROAST un POTATORI PERS - JUST HEAT AND DGNE! A .. - - = THE a Surplus food left over after World War II was sold in supermarkets, and kickstarted the convenience food industry - canned crap, frozen crap and later microwavable crap all boomed as a result. No war, no Hot Pockets. CRACKED

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Operation Paperclip, in the years following World War II, involved bringing 1,500 Nazi scientists to the U.S. to use their intelligence for non-Hitlery purposes. One, Wernher von Braun, developed the Saturn V rocket - no Saturn V, no walking on the Moon. CRACKED

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The French army became the first to use camouflage during WWI. CRACKED.COM The word 'camouflage' comes from the French verb 'to make up for the stage'. Most camouflage was originally used on guns and vehicles.

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