When the flag went up at Iwo Jima it was still a week before the battle for the island was won.
The term 'sideburns' come from Union general Ambrose Burnside who had the greatest mutton chops of all time. Unfortunately Burnside was a terrible general who killed most of his men. No one knows how burnside got changed to side burns.
World War Two is technically several different conflicts going on at the same time.
The Germans would of won WWI if not for the British employing the same illegal type of blockade that the Germans were trying to impose on England. The German blockade eventually helped the Americans into the war a hastened the defeat of the Germans.
Canada once had an aircraft carrier, the HMCS Bonaventure, and the worlds third largest navy.
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