Little-Known WWII Facts

[LT.Hit-Man]

Here's something I heard about but was unable to confrim

Juring that last few years of the war with Gremany the SS was working on the Toden Korps basicly trying to bring the dead back to life to stem the tide of there losses in troops and fater the war was over the US had goten a hold of some kind of chem weapon that sprang a leak and made it's way though a vent into a room where dead troops had been put before they where to be laid to rest and the bodies started twicthing for a few moments then it was over and that was saposedly where the idea for the frist night of the living dead moive came from.
Not that I'd realy belive that but who knows.

That sounds a whole hell of a lot more like someone spinning an urban legend out of The Return of the Living Dead of 1985, instead of the Romero movie.

Could be as far as I know Romero is dead and gone and he 'ant coming back, however if there is even a gran of truth to this matter I doubt anyone in there right minds would de-classfy such a thing, hell if it is true I bet the US would have been working there asses off to perfect the gas and what would be realy scary is if they had perfected it I mean they would have had fifty+ years to work out the bugs.

[kojikun]

Here's something I heard about but was unable to confrim

Juring that last few years of the war with Gremany the SS was working on the Toden Korps basicly trying to bring the dead back to life to stem the tide of there losses in troops and fater the war was over the US had goten a hold of some kind of chem weapon that sprang a leak and made it's way though a vent into a room where dead troops had been put before they where to be laid to rest and the bodies started twicthing for a few moments then it was over and that was saposedly where the idea for the frist night of the living dead moive came from.
Not that I'd realy belive that but who knows.

holy shit could that run-on sentence get any longer?

[LT.Hit-Man]

Here's something I heard about but was unable to confrim

Juring that last few years of the war with Gremany the SS was working on the Toden Korps basicly trying to bring the dead back to life to stem the tide of there losses in troops and fater the war was over the US had goten a hold of some kind of chem weapon that sprang a leak and made it's way though a vent into a room where dead troops had been put before they where to be laid to rest and the bodies started twicthing for a few moments then it was over and that was saposedly where the idea for the frist night of the living dead moive came from.
Not that I'd realy belive that but who knows.

holy shit could that run-on sentence get any longer?

Yes

[DPDarkPrimus]

I have seen sentences that could be multiple paragraphs.

[baelfire1945]

From what I've read, CINCUS was changed more for morale purposes than PR. Sailors are traditionally very superstitious, so you don't want the man in charge called CINCUS.

[Sea Skimmer]

6 reminds me of the story about how US torpedoes were really bad for most of the war because when they were tested the test warheads were filled with sand with was a different weight than explosives and threw the targeting off

Actually US torpedoes were bad simply because they had a 30% failure rate on the warhead itself for much of the first half of the war.

He's right, US torpedoes where tested with dummy warheads that where too light, which lead to the depth setting equipment being uncorrected calibrated. The result was many torpedoes ran way under the targets. German torpedoes also had a similar depth setting problem, though they had been live fired in tests

The other issue was of course the warhead detonators, the firing pin for the impact fuse was too heavy and wouldn't get knocked into position by a hit at a right angle or close too it. Funny thing is the initial replacement pins wher at first made from the metal of the propeller of a Japanese's plane shot down at Pearl Harbor, which happened to be ideal for the job. The magnetic component also doesn't work though I can't recall why.

Then USN training was also rather flawed, with commanders told to make submarine attacks at 100 feet using sonar only... no surface ship was ever sunk using that method of attack. Though in the Atlantic one British boat did sink a U-boat doing it (contrary to what many people say that scene in U-571 had a historical basis)