Soldier Facts

The universally popular Hershey bar was used overseas during World War II as currency.

Some Chinese paramilitary police learn their 'perfect posture' with pins in their collar.

A baboon called Jackie became a private in the South African army in World War I.

After World War 2 ended in 1945, a Japanese officer named Hiroo Onoda didn't surrender and continued the war for 29 years because he didn't know that Japan had surrendered and the war was over.

The handbook issued to US soldiers in Britain during WW2 included the line "The British don't know how to make a good cup of coffee. You don't know how to make a good cup of tea. It's an even swap."