Be Surprised by New Revelations about WW2

As you read the Delilah series books (Book 2, The Delilah Enigma will be available in March), you'll learn (and maybe surprised) by little known facts about the war. Here are a few that we've been thinking about lately:

The inexperience, youth and limited training of RAF pilots and flight crews during the early years of WW2 lead to the loss of one-sixth of its aircraft and crew on every mission.

The US had virtually no significant air force and very limited intelligence gathering and interpretation capability in the beginning of WW2

Germany discovered nuclear fission in 1938, however Hitler drove away so many Jewish and non-Jewish physicists from Axis countries, he effectively gave the atomic bomb to the Allies.

High-ranking German officers plotted to assassinate Hitler and attempted to negotiate a separate peace with the Allies; many were executed.

After little progress in the early 1940s, the Soviet obtained the first blueprints of the US atomic devices in 1945 and developed their own bombs by 1949.

Because of overwhelming objections by its oil-supplying Arab allies to Jewish immigration to Palestine, Great Britain abstained when the UN voted to establish the state of Israel in 1947.

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