Operation Blog is ACTIVE

OK students...this is the platform upon which students will share their knowledge and understanding of the great marker event of 20th century world history: World War 2. The rules are simple:

1. All students must make at least one post to this blog. Posts are in the form of reflections, opinions, links to articles, video, music, images, etc. Students must relate the nature of their posts to a theme of the conflict and make commentary.

2. All students must make at least one comment on another students post. Comments must be thoughtful, argumentative if inclined, insightful, or you my pose some question leads to another post by you or another classmate.

3. You must tag your post with the applicable theme(s).

4. Grades will be based on an holistic scoring scale which heavily weights the frequency and substance of posts and comments. Minimum participation equates to minimum scores for this class exercise.

Friday, February 12, 2010

Interesting Facts About WWII

  1. From 1939 - 1945, the Allies dropped 3.4 million tons of bombs. An average of 27,700 tons of bombs per month.
  2. US's youngest serviceman was 12 years old! His name is Calvin Graham. He was wounded in a battle and given a Dishonorable Discharge for lying about his age.
  3. Germany lost 110 Division Commanders in battle.
  4. 40,000 Germans served on U-Boats during World War 2 and 30,000 never returned.
  5. When Allied armies reached Rhine River in Germany, the first thing men did was pee in it. This was quite worldwide due to a big show that Winston Churchill made. Gen. Patton, one of the men who had peed in it, had photographed himself in the act.
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