Decade - 1940s

Maybe "At the Havana" (1940).

While the B29 was expensive it cannot even compare to the real most expensive project of World War 2. The Manhattan Project was the most costly project to develop the atom bombs used in World Wa2. This project cost well over 2 Billion Dollars in the 1940s. That would be like a 20 Billion or so dollars today. So the atom bombs each cost slightly under a billion dollars a piece.

the blood of 3 million koreans.

Electronic computers in the sense that we know them today did not exist in the early 1940s.

When the first digital machines were developed near the end of WW2 they were either very specialized calculating machines and so did not have a "typical" configuration, or were enormous, room-sized devices weighing many thousands of pounds.

As General Plenipotentiary of Labour Deployment, Sauckel was chiefly responsible for the commission of slave labour. His complicity in the "Holocaust" merits debate. Fritz Sauckel's death sentence has been much the contentious subject among historians. Sauckel's ministerial responsibilities were part of Goering's "Four Year Plan" the so-called economic solution for greater Germany. The common misconception is that Albert Speer was his direct superior on account of his demands to meet the quota of foreign labourers in his munitions divisions. This assertion is incorrect, as Goering was effectively his direct superior. It is true that Speer inherited vital economic responsibility from Goering with his assumption as minister of armaments, but the policy of acquiring foreign labour was enabled by then armaments minister Fritz Todt and Hermann Goering. Moreover, the mistreatment of dragooned prisoners was ultimately left up to the discretion of the respective commandant of the division, not Sauckel. He expressly stated in a memorandum to his delegates of foreign labour that the men and women be treated accordingly with adequate care. In this sense the mistreatment of foreign labourers falls neither, on Sauckel, or on Speer for that matter.

there was lots

That was the time of the "baby boom", when people became eager to start families since the Great Depression and World War II ended, which was when families did not grow as much because of the hardships they had to face.

Practically the same things we use now in 2009 but theirs wasnt as strong as ours are!

The minimum age to join the women's Land Army was 17.

No. Oak leafs are "devices" affixed to original medals indicating second (or more) awards of the same medal. Because WWII was a world war, and just the US had over 17 million in uniform, it would be impossible to list how many "oak leafs" were awarded over the course of the war.

You have a Japanese WWII bolt action rifle built in 1939 (M-1939, the '99 is a Japanese year). It's 7.7mm (the same caliber as the British .303 Lee-Enfield bolt action rifle...BULLET diameter only; not the cartridge). If the rifle still has the "MUM" on it (MUM is short for CHRYSANTHEMUM, which was the Emperor's Symbol), then it's most likely a "war souvenir" (Battle field pick up). If the MUM's filed off/ground off, it was a surrendered weapon. Most riflemen like the Arisaka which still has the MUM on it. These were the strongest WWII rifles constructed during the war; according to blow up tests conducted by the NRA in the 1960's. Only about 64 pages, but recommend purchasing: "Japanese Rifles of World War II". 1996. By Duncan O. McCollum; ISBN 1-880677-113. Also the websites have markings information. Japanese rifles during the Russian-Japanese War of 1904-1905 were 6.5mm. Type 30 & 38 Arisakas.

There were some surveys conducted after the end of World War 2. In a government-sponsored survey in Britain it emerged that 20% of women interviewed had had lesbian relationships while their menfolk were away. This was considered so shocking that the findings were not released till 50 years later.

they stayed at home and finished cooking with the post man

I would say the biggest social issue in the 1940's was the Great Depression and prohibition.

During the Vietnam War, dead US Soldiers/Marines/Sailors, when the fighting was bad, were piled up onto tanks or swift boats (alpha boats, monitors, PBYs, etc), and taken to a collection point where their bodies were tagged and bagged.

During short or isolated firefights in distant mountains/jungles, dead GI's were dragged or carried by other men, again, to a collection point (a designated spot on the ground to place the bodies). Other than the fireman carry (a dead man carried across your shoulders), the most common method was tying the dead man's boot laces together (this forms a handle), then dragging him by his boot laces to a collection point. The biggest problem with dragging dead servicemen on the battlefield is that their uniforms (clothing) come off during the dragging process. Plus personal belongings are spread out over the area traversed during the movement; becoming lost (wallets, watches, dog-tags, rings, photographs, eye-glasses, can openers, knives, etc). Once the clothing rips off (pulls off) MOST men, for reasons as yet un-explained, are hesitant upon grabbing (touching) any part of the actual dead GI; BUT it becomes necessary to grab the deceased man's hand, wrist, arm, leg, etc. in order to CONTINUE transporting him to the collection point. Sometimes a little bit of yelling and profanity is used to get the carrying men in motion (instead of just staring or freezing up), after a few dead bodies have been dragged away, your mind goes numb and a man can continue touching (handling) dead men without much hesitation.

Once at the collection point, the dead men are placed onto a chopper (any chopper), if there's too many dead, and the place is still hot (dangerous), the bodies are thrown onto the bird, to expedite the evacuation of casualties. From there, they're flown to a large US Military base in country to be processed by the medical corps for shipment home. They'll arrive home in aluminum coffins.

If it exists you could probably get 7 to 8000

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Yes, the film Pinocchio is in English. The classic Walt Disney release of 1940 leads audiences through the plot regarding a puppet seeking to become a real human boy by way of English dialogues and voice actors. The masculine proper name will be translated literally from Italian to English as "pine eye" (pino merged with occhio) or as "pine nutlet" or "pine seedling" (pinolo with the suffix -occio) and pronounced "pea-NOK-kyo" in Italian.

The United States and the Soviet Union competed in the so-called "Cold War".

HUAC was the House Committee on Un-Amercan Activities. It was created to investigate disloyal and subversive organizations, such as Fascism Nazism and Communism. Largely associated with McCarthyism, HUAC set out to investigate and convict peole of holding left-wing (communism) views. In 1947, HUAC began blacklisting Hollywood actors and producers.

"You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass." is a quote by Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. Of course it was originally stated in Japanese, this is the English translation.

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Unfortunately there is no evidence that Yamamoto ever said this. There is a reference link below on this.

HOAX - NO PROOF IT WAS EVER SAID.

Apparently, there is no proof that this was ever said, that is correct. However, it should be noted that Yamamoto spent time in the U.S., attending Harvard for two or more years. He spoke fluent English and had a keen understanding of the industrial capabilities of the United States. He did not want war with the U.S. for this, and possibly other reason. Therefore, while he may not have made this now-famous quote, it is likely that he may have believed it, therefore being a good person to attribute it to.

Billy Strayhorn.

Yes they did in fact exist.

During the 1890s, recordings had become popular primarily through coin-in-the-slot phonographs in public places.