General Omar Bradley – Previously an instructor at an infantry school, Bradley entered WWII under the command of General George Patton – only to later become Patton’s boss. At the time of the Normandy Landing, Bradley commanded all of the US ground forces in WWII. Commanding a total of 43 divisions – totalling 1.3 million men – it was the largest US troop command ever under a single US field commander.
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World War 2 (WW2) was a long and bloody war that lasted for six years. Officially beginning on September 1, 1939 when Germany invaded Poland, World War 2 lasted until both the Germans and the Japanese had surrendered to the Allies in 1945.
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Fun Facts:Out of the 40,000 men who served on U-boats during WWII, only 10,000 returned.
In 1941, a private earned $21 a month. In 1942, a private earned $50 a month. It is estimated that 1.5 million children died during the Holocaust. Approximately 1.2 million of them were Jewish and tens of thousands were Gypsies |