3+Interesting+Facts

===**1.The youngest U.S. serviceman was 12-year-old Calvin Graham, USN. He was wounded and given a Dishonorable Discharge for lying about his age. (His benefits were later restored by act of Congress).**===

2. The first German serviceman killed in World War II was killed by the Japanese (China, 1937), the first American serviceman killed was killed by the Russians (Finland 1940), the highest-ranking American killed was Lt. Gen. Lesley McNair, killed by the **U.S. Army Air Corps** – so much for allies.

3. When allied armies reached the Rhine,one of Germans most important source of clean water, the first thing men did was pee in it. Winston Churchill made a spectacle out of it. Gen. Patton had himself photographed.