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...loaded with German troops in U.S. uniforms and equipment complete to dog tags. German tanks and trucks were marked with American stars. The deception was highly successful and forced U.S. Military Police to make time-consuming checks of all vehicles using the roads in northern France and Belgium. American slang and American lore became the one sure test to pass...
...TIME (Nov. 13) I read with amusement an item signed Technical Sergeant John B. White, U.S.M.C., anent the use of slang in the armed forces in general and its use in the Marine Corps in particular. I take exception to his allegations that, for example, catsup is always called catsup...
...assume that Sergeant White has not been with us long, so I submit herewith for Ye Editor's perusal and White's edification a limited list of the more well-known slang terms in common...
From various stories and articles I have read, I get the impression that all men of the armed forces use an odd slang in which nothing is referred to by its right name. I can't speak for the Army, but so far as I have observed in the Marine Corps, a spade is a spade. Viz., potatoes are potatoes, bread is bread, catsup (when we have it) is catsup...
...word to assemble the troop. The limping lieutenant, the tank commander, and the second in command followed him into the darkness. Only the sergeant was left in the room. "It's tough on them," he said. Soon the troop's armored cars, tanks and bantams (cavalry slang for jeeps), were rolling up the dark road, toward the rear. As we turned into the field where we would bivouac, the bearded sergeant said: "Well, it usually ends like this." He meant, not that it usually ended in retirement, but that any ending is an anticlimax for men who have...