November 30

Some of the foreigners who came to defend Finland included a group from the United States. The first Americans that died in Europe during World War II were killed by the Soviet Union, an eventual ally.

November 27

Despite the centuries of combat and death, the Crusades did reopen trade between Western Europe and the Middle East. Knowledge learned and traded from Islamic realms helped spark the Renaissance and end the Christian dominated Dark Ages.

November 26

The men who assaulted Hill 875 made the only American parachute jump during the Vietnam War earlier in 1967. By the time of the fighting around Dak To, all airborne forces had switched to using helicopters in combat.

November 25

One of the targets of the Confederate Army of Manhattan was P.T. Barnum's circus.

November 24

The Twentieth Air Force was the unit of "Enola Gay" and "Bock's Car", the B-29s that dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively.

November 23

When asked what it would take to successfully invade Tarawa, the Japanese commander of the island famously proclaimed "A million men and a hundred years." It took 35,000 Marines just three days.

November 20

The Royal Navy shipped its landship prototypes to France disguised as water tanks. The term "tank" was used when secretly referring to the new vehicles, and the nickname stuck.