Interesting Military Facts & Stories You Discovered

IndyFront said:
I don't remember the exact date but there was this WWI battle between either Germans or Austrians and the Russians, and they used this gas on a bunch of Russian soldiers in a bunker that caused their skin to rot but didn't kill them, and so they continued to fight despite being effectively zombified. Wild
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That was the Third battle of Osowiec fortress. Germans used chlorine gas that causes skin burns and destroys your lungs. Russian soldiers had no gas masks and used scarves and whatever piece of cloth they could to protect themselves - to no avail. Chlorine gas does not kill you fast, depending on dosage it will take you hours or days to die, unless you are completely smothered by, so when the ground assault started, most of the affected troops were still alive. As Friderick the Great said: ''It's easier to kill the Russians than it is to defeat them'', somehow Russian officers managed to get their dying men on their feet and launch bayonet charge.
Gas masks back then had shit visibility, expecting only the dead and dying, so when bloodied creatures shambled into their limited view like a nightmarish embodiment of every folk tale they knew, German troops were shaken and once the first man lost his nerve and ran a chain reaction started. Add to this Russian artillery fire, the attack turned into complete disaster.
 
I accidentally discovered,that before WW2,when Poland send agent to soviets,they not only teach him about soviet laws and customs,but also do not change clothes for 2 weeks,and do not clean mounths.

They not only must look like soviets,but smell like ones,too !
 
ATP said:
I accidentally discovered,that before WW2,when Poland send agent to soviets,they not only teach him about soviet laws and customs,but also do not change clothes for 2 weeks,and do not clean mounths.

They not only must look like soviets,but smell like ones,too !
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>Spy crosses soviet border
>Fits in perfectly
>Is in important meeting with high class Soviet officials
>THIS MAN DOES NOT REEK! ARREST HIM AT ONCE!

XDD
 
Soviets during WW2 created their own partisants - People army.
Here is wiki:

It is,of course ,lie - there were maybe 5.000 commies,and they were bandits murdering civilians/including hiding jews/,not fighting germans.
But,in commie time they lied even more - according to polish commies,there were 100.000 partisants who fought all real battles - as a result,they take credit for all polish Home Army and nationalists victories.

And accused them of being german agents.
They even faked photos - simply replacing heads of real partisants with some commie bandits.
 
Another interesting fact - polish police during WW2 was not polish at all.Germans ordered all pre-war policeman which they do not murdered to become lowest part of german police,or they would be murdered,too.
There were few volunteers,but not many,and entire jewish police in gettos was made from volunteers,too.


And they were counted as part of german police/worst,but still/ and did what german state ordered.

And they always must did what german police ordered,even if they formally have lower rank.
local german police commanders were also "polnishe polizai fuhler"

Of course,there were traitors who supported germans - but they did what germans ordered them to do,not polish authorities.
And,entire jewish Judischer Ordnungsdients did the same.
 
When a M-10 Tank Destroyer Destroyed a Destroyer instead of Tanks.

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The 77th ID Defend Ormoc Bay - Tank Encyclopedia

On the night of 11-12th Dec. 1944, two M10 Tank Destroyers sank a Japanese landing ship off the coast of Ormoc Bay, on the island of Leyte.
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Or perhaps more accurate an M-10 Tank Destroyer of the famous 77th Infantry Division sank a Japanese Number 101-class Landing Ship on the night of December 11-12 of 1944 in Ormoc Bay, Philippines. The tank kill of the Japanese ship took place when the Tank Destroyer in question helped defend their beach head from a Japanese attempt at an amphibious landing.

During the night of 11-12 December, organizations defending the waterfront and beaches – the 7th AAA (AW) Battalion, elements of the Amphibious Tractor Battalion, and the Tank Destroyer and Cannon Company weapons of the 307th Infantry [Regt. of the 77th ID] – observed several enemy vessels moving into the bay, apparently with the intention of landing at Ormoc and on the beaches northwest of the town. The first vessel to be seen was a fifty-man barge approaching the Ormoc pier. By the time it came within range, all units had been alerted and the guns which bristled along the shoreline were tracking the unsuspecting craft. Fire was withheld until it was fifty yards from the pier. Then the silent night was shattered by the point-blank roar of 40 mm guns, .50 caliber machine guns, self-propelled howitzers and guns, and light and heavy machine guns, tracers from all of which converged on the barge. The first round of 40 mm fire was a direct hit and the barge became an orange ball of flame. Some Japanese stood on the gunwales and screamed "Don't shoot", apparently in the belief that their forces still occupied the town. They were smothered by fire from all sides which literally blew the barge out of the water.

The light from the burning boat, augmented by 60 mm illuminating shells, disclosed another Japanese landing vessel of the approximate size and type of an LST which, under cover of darkness, had beached northwest of Ormoc and was unloading troops and heavy equipment.

Self-propelled howitzers and guns of the 307th Infantry, which were emplaced along the beach within 1,000 yards [914 m] of the ship, opened fire while artillery forward observers of the 902d Field Artillery Battalion, who were with the 307th, directed artillery fire on the landing point and inland. Excitement ran high as a terrific volume of fire was poured into the enemy ship. A gunner on an M-10 tank destroyer was heard shouting above the din: "Throw up another flare so I can hit the son-of-a-bitch again." The Japanese skipper attempted to retract his ship but had not withdrawn over fifty yards when it burst into flames and sank.

There were indications that another vessel had beached still farther to the west. The artillery shelled the area and at dawn, a crippled ship was observed slowly making its escape far across the bay to the east. The shelling continued and, before it got out of range, its speed had been further reduced, its hull pierced, and clouds of black smoke were pouring from it. Planes later located and sank this vessel.
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The No. 101 class ships were the thousand ton, eighty meter long Japanese equivalents of LST's or Landing Ship-Tanks and could carry vehicles or loads of upwards of two hundred tons.
 
Husky_Khan said:
When a M-10 Tank Destroyer Destroyed a Destroyer instead of Tanks.

tanks-encyclopedia.com

The 77th ID Defend Ormoc Bay - Tank Encyclopedia

On the night of 11-12th Dec. 1944, two M10 Tank Destroyers sank a Japanese landing ship off the coast of Ormoc Bay, on the island of Leyte.
tanks-encyclopedia.com tanks-encyclopedia.com

Or perhaps more accurate an M-10 Tank Destroyer of the famous 77th Infantry Division sank a Japanese Number 101-class Landing Ship on the night of December 11-12 of 1944 in Ormoc Bay, Philippines. The tank kill of the Japanese ship took place when the Tank Destroyer in question helped defend their beach head from a Japanese attempt at an amphibious landing.



The No. 101 class ships were the thousand ton, eighty meter long Japanese equivalents of LST's or Landing Ship-Tanks and could carry vehicles or loads of upwards of two hundred tons.
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And then there you have the time during the Homeland War when Croatian T-55 MBT drove off a missile gunship near Dubrovnik (Plato):
 
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