Interesting WWII facts

**Ice** · 05-31-2006, 21:51

# A number of air crewmen died of farts. (ascending to 20,000 ft. in an un-pressurized aircraft causes intestinal gas to expand 300%!)

**AwesomeArcher** · 06-01-2006, 02:40

Originally Posted by Ice

# A number of air crewmen died of farts. (ascending to 20,000 ft. in an un-pressurized aircraft causes intestinal gas to expand 300%!)

Yes, that was interesting, i did a speech on the luftwaffe and i had that as one of my facts, another interesting one i had was that the soviet union downed more German planes by ramming them than shooting them.

**Pontifex Rex** · 08-16-2006, 02:37

Originally Posted by AwesomeArcher

Yes, that was interesting, i did a speech..., another interesting one i had was that the soviet union downed more German planes by ramming them than shooting them.

I hope it was fantasy convention because that is absolute nonsense.

The Red Airforce destroyed something more than 10,000 German aircraft between June 1941 and May 1945,...they most certainly did not ram over 5,000 aircraft. There was no need to ram simply because the Red Airforce, like the Red Army, gained in experience and received newer and better equipment as the war went on and were perfectly capable of shooting down German aircraft.

Other posters are correct about a lot of this being nonsense.

In regards to German kill verification, iirc, they had the most stringent 'confirmation' sytem of any airforce. I tend to trust the claim of their best pilots but that does not change the fact that they simply fought more often and thus scored more kills. Hartmann, for example, flew from the second half of 42 through 45 almost non-stop.

**Patriarch of Constantinople** · 06-08-2006, 03:42

Originally Posted by Ice

# A number of air crewmen died of farts. (ascending to 20,000 ft. in an un-pressurized aircraft causes intestinal gas to expand 300%!)

im srry for the family when the segeant has to tell the family the news

"Ma'm your son has died in a farting accident"

**Avicenna** · 06-08-2006, 08:17

Originally Posted by Hannibal99

im srry for the family when the segeant has to tell the family the news

"Ma'm your son has died in a farting accident"

It happened outside of war as well. This person, I forgot his name, was a musician, and his instrument was his bum-hole and the farts were his music. Apparently, one day he farted one time too many, and the pressure or something caused an artery to pop and bye-bye Mr Fart-Man.

**English assassin** · 06-08-2006, 10:01

That was Le Petomane. UK posters over 30 will be absolutely delighted to lear that a film of his life was made, with Leonard Rossiter playing the flatulent hero. A role he was born for surely.

http://www.ljhelms.com/pet/_pujol/thestory/retro.htm

Through a weird mixture of motions, extortions and contortions, Pujol could "inhale" as much as two quarts of air (as measured by Dr. Marcel Baudouin in 1892) through his distended bottom. The young man quickly found that by varying the force with which he expelled this air, he could produce musical notes of varying pitch and timbre. He soon mastered simple tunes, and found himself entertaining astonished school chums with impromptu Bel cantos and arias.

Sort of thing that could happen to anyone, that.

He died peacefully of old age rather than as a result of farting though.

**KrooK** · 06-09-2006, 19:56

During Battle of Britain polish pilots fought together with Brits but sometimes they got problems with british culture. One of them had no ammo into his fighter and decided to land on british airfield. Every second was important because Germans attacked like mads. When he did it, he noticed that airfield is ... completely empty.

After searching for a while, he entered shelter and notice that all Brits are there. When he asked why they don't fight (it was one of the hardest days), they replied "5 o'clock". All airfield crew (even with AA guns crew) was into shelter calmly drinking tea........