Unknown pages of the history of wars sooner or later become public knowledge thanks to secret archives, memoirs and eyewitness accounts. But their mystical secrets still confuse the minds of both historians and researchers of anomalous phenomena.
A rare book on anomalous phenomena does not contain any mention of the mysterious disappearance of the Norfolk Battalion during the First World War. This mysterious incident took place on August 21, 1915 during a bloody military operation, when England and France tried to seize the Dardanelles to control the sea route between the Black and Mediterranean Seas. According to the testimony of three New Zealand soldiers, on that day, the 4th Norfolk Regiment was sent to the aid of a unit that attacked Hill 60. The soldiers were advancing to the height along the bed of a dried-up river, where an unusual cloud covered them. When it rose, people disappeared. The witnesses had the impression that the cloud had an anomalous appearance (“very thick, as if solid”), especially since, having absorbed the soldiers, it moved against the wind. And at the end of the war, the Turkish military confirmedthat the soldiers from the Norfolk Regiment were not captured.
What assumptions were not put forward about this mysterious disappearance! Ufologists believed that people were abducted by a UFO disguised as a cloud, others talked about a window into another dimension, which for some reason opened up in this land area. Only historians treated these hypotheses with certain skepticism, and they had certain grounds for this. Firstly, three New Zealanders told about this incident… 50 years after the Dardanelles operation. Why were they silent for so long? Secondly, it was not the regiment that disappeared, but the battalion, and not the 4th, but the 5th. He went missing not on August 21, but on August 12. Thirdly, 122 bodies of soldiers of the 5th Norfolk battalion were nevertheless discovered in September 1919. If we take into account that the Dardanelles operation was a real meat grinder (27 thousand people). Allied soldiers were buried in a common grave without specifying their names and surnames), the remaining 145 battalion soldiers could well have been lost in this mountain of corpses.
So is the New Zealanders' message fiction? It is difficult to assert this, because it is known from the official document that on August 21, the place of the battle was actually enveloped in dense fog, but there is no mention of an anomalous cloud in it. In 1965, when the mysterious disappearance of the Norfolk Battalion became known for the first time, stories of UFOs and alien abductions were already in full swing in the West. Perhaps these publications had an impact on the elderly soldiers, witnesses (?) Of the disappearance (if you reject the version of a deliberate hoax).
A much more mysterious story with the disappearance of a large number of soldiers occurred in December 1937 during the hostilities between China and Japan. Chinese general Li Fushi sent a detachment of 3 thousand soldiers to detain the enemy at the turn of the Yangtze River. The next day, his scouts reported that the entire party had disappeared, although no signs of battle were found, and no dead bodies were found. If the soldiers retreated, they would have been forced to cross the bridge, but the general's unit was located near the bridge, which could not fail to notice so many people. The Chinese government has repeatedly tried to reveal the mystery of the disappearance of these 3,000 soldiers, but until now it has remained unsolved. Neither in the Japanese archives, nor in the testimony of the military, there is no evidence that this detachment was captured or destroyed.
Mysterious events during the wars took place not only on land, but also in the sky. It is believed that the "era of UFOs" began in 1947 with the observation of "flying saucers" by Kenneth Arnold, but on February 25, 1942, several UFOs appeared over Los Angeles (USA). Of course, the Americans thought they were Japanese, and the air defense opened a hurricane of fire. One large round UFO and several small ones that accompanied it were not damaged at all, although, according to eyewitnesses, some shells exploded near mysterious objects. In the end, the UFOs quietly flew away, and the Americans began to count the losses: as a result of the firing on the UFO, several buildings were damaged and six people died …
In the fall of 1944, American pilots who bombed Germany began to meet with UFOs. Strange glowing balls and disks literally chased the planes, as if playing tag with them. At first they were considered the new secret weapon of the fascists, but there were no losses from UFOs, so the pilots jokingly nicknamed the mysterious formations "fu-fighters" and "Fritz balls". The Germans also saw these UFOs and, in turn, considered them to be weapons of the Allies. It is curious that such formations were observed by pilots during the Korean and Vietnamese wars. Ufologists believe that "fireballs" were real UFOs, which are quite often observed in areas of military conflict.
Many of us have read about the so-called sea monsters - a giant sea snake, huge octopuses, etc. It would be strange if, with such a scale of hostilities at sea, the military could not accidentally hook (with the same depth charges) or observe monsters, if they really existed. Nevertheless, such evidence exists. For example, the report of the commander of a German submarine, which during the First World War in the Atlantic torpedoed the English steamer "Iberian". The German submariner wrote that among the wreckage of the steamer suddenly appeared a huge (18 m in length), something like a crocodile monster with four powerful webbed legs and a long tail tapering towards the end. The monster fought in agony and soon disappeared into the depths. It is possible that we have such evidence thanks to the pedantry of the Germans: the captain was not afraid,that he would be mistaken for a psycho, and wrote about what really happened.
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Another secret of the war is connected with the German sailors: we are talking about the so-called damned ship. What happened to the pride of the German fleet, the huge battleship Scharnhorst, can be called a chain of fatal accidents or a real curse. Even before launching in 1936, this ship slipped into the shipyard and crushed 60 workers, while injuring 110 people. It was not possible to avoid embarrassment when launching, although Hitler himself watched him: the Scharnhorst broke the cable and crashed into the barges. Three years later, during the shelling of Gdansk at intervals of a day, two gun turrets unexpectedly exploded one after the other, killing 28 people. In all skirmishes with the British, the pride of the German fleet did not manage to sink a single ship. But misfortunes simply pursued the "damned" ship. During the shelling of Oslo, the Norwegian ship damaged the steering control of the battleship, while returning to the port of Scharnhorst, it collided with the steamer Bremen. The end of the giant was also inglorious: during a battle with the British fleet, a torpedo hit an ammunition depot, causing a powerful explosion and sinking of the ship. The battleship became a grave for 1,422 sailors. The British picked up only 36 people. Two sailors from the Scharnhorst considered themselves lucky: on the wreckage of the ship they managed to get to the coast and avoid captivity. However, when trying to make tea on a blowtorch captured from the ship, it exploded and the last victims of the "damned ship" died in terrible agony.which led to a powerful explosion and sinking of the ship. The battleship became a grave for 1,422 sailors. The British picked up only 36 people. Two sailors from the Scharnhorst considered themselves lucky: on the wreckage of the ship they managed to get to the coast and avoid captivity. However, when trying to make tea on a blowtorch captured from the ship, it exploded and the last victims of the "damned ship" died in terrible agony.which led to a powerful explosion and sinking of the ship. The battleship became a grave for 1,422 sailors. The British picked up only 36 people. Two sailors from the Scharnhorst considered themselves lucky: on the wreckage of the ship they managed to get to the coast and avoid captivity. However, when trying to make tea on a blowtorch captured from the ship, it exploded and the last victims of the "damned ship" died in terrible agony.
Mysterious events often happened to the main characters in military conflicts. Suffice it to recall the mystical luck of Hitler, who got off with only a slight fright in the face of many carefully prepared attempts on his life. Well, Churchill, thanks to a "hint from above", survived when a shock wave from an exploded bomb nearly overturned his car. The overweight prime minister on this trip changed his usual place and sat on the other side. It is thanks to its weight that the car, which stood on two wheels, did not roll over. As Churchill later recalled, when getting into the car, it was as if someone said to him: “Stop! This was not the only time that Winston Churchill managed to avoid danger thanks to unexpected insights.
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