WORLD WAR FACTS

World Wars Facts:

- Veteran's Day was once called Armistice Day. The day WWI ended, peace was declared on the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month, 1918.

- Claude Ryan of California, a World War One aviator built Charles Lindburgh's "Spirit of St. Louis".

- The first women to serve in the military in an actual branch of service were World War One yeomanettes in the US Navy. They were formally designated yeomen(F) for female.

- Over 100,000 Chinese laborers were used by the British Army to dig trenches on the Western Front.

- The Last Post is still sounded each night at 6 p.m. at the Menin Gate in Ypres, Belgium to honor the War Dead. (Suspended only during the occupation by Germany during the Second World War)