"Military history, when superficially studied, will furnish arguments in support of any theory."
|--||Bronsart von Schellendorf|
- The term “Ranger” derives ultimately from a handful of mounted men paid by Virginia to “range” between the forts marking the edge of settlement in the late 1670s.
- On December 10, 1941, Capt. Jesus Villanor, of the Philippine Army Air Force, downed a Japanese “Zero” – arguably the hottest fighter in the world at the time – while flying a wonderfully obsolete P-26.
- During the Battle of Sole Bay (May 28, 1662), Capt. Roger Vaughn of HMS Katherine, being slain, was placed below decks, where his body was eaten by the ship’s hogs.
- In World War II the U.S. Army had 15 million hosptial admissions for disease and two million for non-combat related injuries, as against less than a million combat-related admissions.
- During the Civil War Ulysses S. Grant liked cucumbers with his breakfast.
- The greatest number of battleships sunk in a single battle is six, the Russian pre-dreadnoughts Sevastapol, Kniaz Suvarov, Osliabia, Borodino, Imperator Alexander III, Sissoi Veliki, and Navarin, lost to Japanese gunfire and torpedoes in Tsushima Straits on May 27, 1905.
- The responsibility for recruiting of dogs for military service during World war II was entrusted to the U.S. Army Remount Service, which normally procured horses and mules.
- On May 14, 1788, the Austrian Chancellery recommended permitting the enlistment of Jewish men, because it would “turn them into useful human beings.”