Comment on YSK about Project 100,000, when the US conscripted people with mental disabilities to be used as cannon fodder in Vietnam, suffering triple the casualties of other soldiers

• Machinist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Didn’t they recruit little people to be aircraft mechanics in WWII? They could fit inside fuselages and wings?

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  • DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I never heard that. They’d have had normal sized women and it’s more likely that they’d plan around the building than to rely on little people. Remember that the US was building thousands of planes and ships and needing extra small folks would have created a massive bottleneck.

    I did a quick search and nothing came up.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovitz_family

    Family of ‘dwarves’ who survived the concentration camps.

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    • Machinist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Very possible it’s some crazy shit I was told as a kid. I’ll have to do some digging.

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    • Machinist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Little people were employed in the building and inspection of B-24s. Henry Ford Collection

      Guess there’s some sort of truth to what I remember.

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      • DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You learn something new every day.

        Thanks.

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    • drolex@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Once in the concentration camp Auschwitz, the Ovitzes attracted the attention of the German camp physician Josef Mengele

      Fucking hell.

      But they all survived. Let’s not forget what happened despite all the ambient bullshit about holocaust denial.

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