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After Gen. Douglas MacArthur vowed to return to the Philippines in the Second World War, chewing gum was manufactured with the three-word promise "I Shall Return" printed on it in order to boost the morale of local Filipino residents -- a constant reminder that America would be back.

Another bit of World War II trivia: the BBC would often begin its wartime radio broadcasts with the opening few notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (the well-known "bum-bum-bum BUM") because if you convert this into Morse code as dot-dot-dot-dash, you get the letter V, in this context symbolic for "Victory."