5 Strangest Photos of World War II | Dark5

Presenting the top 5 strangest historical photos from World War II. A special collaboration with Top10Memes and AllTimeConspiracies...
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These are the strangest, most mysterious photos from World War II, including a fighter plane outfitted to deliver beer, to a kid wearing a creepy Disney approved Mickey Mouse gas mask to a potential UFO sighting.

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Intro: "The Machine Thinks"
by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Closed Caption:

Designated "Mod. XXX," the Spitfire auxiliary
fuel tank photographed here is being filled
with Pale Ale from Henty & Constable Brewery.
"XXX Joy Juice" was racked into jettisonable
"slippers" of up to 90 gallons (240 liters)
for transport under the center of the fighter.
The modification was used by British RAF
pilots to circumvent thin supply lines to the
front line in France after the D-Day invasion.
18 gallon (82 liter) casks could also be
fitted under modified pylons on each wing
in a "beer bomb" configuration.
Westerham Brewery attached Bitter on one wing,
Mild on the other. Flying at 15k ft (4,572 m)
ensured the beer was chilled when it arrived.
Made by Sun Rubber and Disney-approved, this
Mickey Mouse gas mask was created for U.S.
children following the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Having witnessed the Japanese Army's use of
mustard gas against Chinese soldiers, the
Army Chemical Corps feared attacks on America.
In preparation for a hypothetical attack,
gas masks and warnings were distributed to
civilians in cities on the U.S. west coast.
The Mickey Mouse masks were sized for children
up to 4-years-old and were intended to turn
chemical attack drills into a fun “game.”
It turned out that U.S. chemical weapon
concerns were well justified.
Post-war investigations into Japan's infamous
Unit 731 uncovered plans to deliver chemical
and biological agents by balloon and kamikaze.
Pictured here carrying an inflatable tank
are 4 members of the 1,100 strong 23rd
Headquarters Special Troops “Ghost Army.”
From 1944 until the end of the war the Ghost
Army was tasked with faking the existence of
two 30,000 man U.S. Army units across Europe.
Engineers and artists from the 603rd
Camouflage provided visual deception...
...while the 3132nd Signal Service
provided fake audio and dummy radio traffic.
The Ghost Army participated in over 20
classified battlefield deceptions, even faking
whole airfields complete with hanging laundry.
For Operation Fortitude the unit tricked
German coastal defenses into believing D-Day
would be arriving across the Strait of Dover.
Seen in this 1939 photo, Lieutenant Colonel Jack
Churchill was a British solider known for leading
commando charges with a Scottish broadsword.
"Mad Jack" believed that "any officer who
goes into action without his sword is
improperly dressed."
Also among Churchill's preferred accoutrements
was a set of bagpipes used to rouse his troops
and a longbow and arrows for combat.
He is credited with recording the last longbow
kill in action, felling a German sergeant with a
barbed arrow to signal the start of an attack.
Churchill later fought the Japanese in Burma
and was disappointed in the U.S.'s
use of atomic weapons:
“If it wasn't for those damn Yanks, we could
have kept the war going another 10 years...”
Officially a weather balloon, secretly a UFO?
This photo shows a mysterious object
hovering over the "Battle of Los Angeles."
Tensions in Los Angeles were high following
the February 23, 1942 bombardment of the
Ellwood oil field by a Japanese submarine.
The next night the city succumbed to "war
nerves" when a lost US weather balloon trigged
artillary fire from the 37th Coast Brigade.
When the photo of the battle was published
in the LA Times, UFOologists believed it was
evidence of an extraterrestrial craft.
The Navy and Air Force insisted there were
no signs of enemy planes in the area...
...while Army reports suggested the
presence of 1 to 5 unidentified craft...