"F" Trivia: First Motion Picture Unit - U.S. Army Air Force training film unit that was commanded by Colonel Jack Warner. A few members were Captain Ronald Reagan, First Lieutenant William Holden, Lloyd Bridges and Leslie Nielsen. Fifth Column - Term used to describe secret symphathizers behind enemy lines that engaged in espionage, sabotage, and other types of subversive activity. The term was coined by General Emilio Mola, second-in-command of the Spanish Nationalists, who said that four columns of troops were converging on Madrid from the outside while a fifth column was waiting to strike from within. Fall River - Code name of Milne Bay, New Guinea. At the height of the fighting in New Guinea, desperately needed supplies were accidentally routed to Fall River, Massachusetts, where they sat on the docks, rusting away. Ferdinand Tank - German tank built in the latter half of WWII. It weighed 73 tons and had 120mm armor on the front with 82mm armor on the sides. As awesome as it was, it had a slight design error, in that there were no machine guns for protection. Russian infantry could approach the tank and drop incendiaries into the engine air intake that would set it on fire.
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