If it's military trivia you want, go on here:
http://www.strategypage.com/cic
They've got lots of little tidbits, like in #392, where WW II commanders and their "gals"....Marshal Zhukov, for one, had an affair with a female medical officer (who was his personal physican), as did Marshal Rokossovsky (who got his mistress pregnant, but did see to it that the female officer and the child were taken care of after the war), and Admiral Yamamoto's affair with Chiyoko Kawaii, his mistress from the early '30s (he wrote her daily as opposed to his wife, whom he wrote only weekly). And Omar Bradley would sometimes go off for a weekend with one or two WACs.... Then there's General (later Marshal) Pierre Koenig of France, who had a lengthy affair with Susan Travers, a British nurse who also served as his driver-and was enrolled as a warrant officer in the Foreign Legion and decorated with the Medaille Militaire, Legion D' Honneur, and Crox de Guerre, for service in Syria, North Africa, France and Indochina, often under fire.
Another tidbit: one was more likely to become a casualty in the Imperial Japanese Merchant Marine than in either the Imperial Army or the Imperial Navy.
The Germans sent an official protest to the U.S. Army in WW I, complaining about the Americans' use of Winchester 1897 shotguns for trench-clearing.
A German officer with dual British/German citizenship was awarded the "von" for his actions in suppressing the Maji-Maji revolt in German East Africa. He was killed in action at the Battle of Tanga in 1914, fighting against the British and Indian forces which landed there. His name: Tom von Prince.
Also from the East African Campaign: A British patrol and a German patrol are exchanging fire. An angry Rhino charges the British and sends them fleeing, then with total impartiality, charges the Germans and puts them to flight. The still enraged beast then turns and charges some Masai tribesmen who had been merely watching the action, killing one.
A platoon of Canadians during the defense of Hong Kong in 1941 was initially barred from taking up defensive positions at Stanley Barracks, due to the fact that their assigned position was the Officer's Mess.
In WW II: the U.S. Navy allowed ship's mascots to be awarded the rank of Petty Officer 3rd Class, and several at the end of the war had advanced to CPO grade.
When the German raider
Pinguin captured a British passenger-cargo ship west of Australia in December, 1940, among the passengers were seven women. The raider captain, not expecting such passengers, had one of his officers go back aboard the ship before it was sunk to get the ladies some clothes. That officer's qualification for the job? Prewar, he'd been a traveling salesman specializing in ladies' underwear.
The mascot of the 4th Marine Regiment, a bulldog adopted in Shanghai, was the only four-legged POW recognized by the U.S. military in WW II. Soochow was the dog, and he was inducted into the USMC as a Private in 1938. He was a Corporal on Corregidor in 1941-42, and went into captivity when the island was surrendered. Several Marines took care of the dog, even giving the dog their own rations-and keeping other hungry POWs away from the dog. He was liberated in 1945 from Bilbid Prison in Manila, and became the mascot for the USMC Recruit Depot in San Diego. When he died in 1947, he was a Sergeant, and was buried with full military honors.
A number of dog handlers in Vietnam, whose dogs were killed in action, insisted on their dogs being given military honors when the dogs were buried-usually at remote firebases or SF camps. (In Iraq, the same thing happened on several occasions, and thus the only Americans buried in Iraq were those working dogs who were killed in the line of duty)