This day in history: Did you know...

Tuesday, 11 November 2014

From Wikipedia's new and recently improved content:

... that Command Sergeant Major William McLeroy (pictured) was the first amputee to serve in Operation Iraqi Freedom?
... that the $10 banknote of the Canadian Journey Series includes an excerpt from the iconic Remembrance Day war poem "In Flanders Fields"?
... that Neil Douglas Findlay was the first British general to be killed during the First World War?
... that George Bacon fought as a Green Beret during the Vietnam War, a CIA paramilitary in the Laotian Civil War, and a mercenary in Angola, all by age 30?
... that No. 91 (Composite) Wing was responsible for administering all Royal Australian Air Force units deployed in the Korean War?
... that Major Arthur Moon enlisted four prisoners of war who were artists to create a unique record of camp conditions during construction of the Thailand-Burma Railway, then buried those works?
... that in his 1989 book Homecoming, Bob Greene reprinted scores of letters fromVietnam veterans who claimed they were spat upon when they returned from the war zone?

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