Amazing Fact : Military

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24/08/2014

THE SHORTEST WAR

The shortest war in between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar , from 9:02 to 9:40 am on 27 Aug 1896 , the 38 minutes of bombardment

THE LONGEST WAR

The longest war happened in between England and France. The was lusted more than hundred years(116 years) from 1337 to 1453.

THE MOST BLOODIEST BATTLE

It is the First Battle of the Somme , France from July 1 to 19th Nov 1916. The battle recorded the greatest number of casualties at 1,043,896. 623,907 were allied and the rest German

THE MOST COSTLY WAR

World War II is the most costly war. The material cost of war has been estimated as US $ 1.42 million million. The total cost to the USA was estimated at US $530,00 million.

Amazing Facts :

During World War II , the very first bomb dropped on Berlin , Germany , killed the only elephant in Berlin zoo.
During World War II , coconut milk was used as Blood Plasma.
During Vietnam War about 58,000 American soldiers were killed in action. It is said that nearly twice that many have committed suicide since their return.
A British soldier once walked , non-stop for 6 days , 10 hours , 20 minutes without a break.
German Submarine U-120 was sunk by a malfunctioning toilet.
To conserve metal the movie Oscars were made out of wood during World War II.
During the First World War , it took about one tonne of poison gas to kill a single infantryman.
During the first Gulf War in 1990's , the allied forces lost just 4 tanks out of the 3360 they were deployed while Iraq lost 4000 tanks out of 4230 they used.
Kleenex tissues were actually developed for use as gas-mask filters during World War I .
During the First World war , ordinary yeast was used in manufacture of high explosives.

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