My Cooter's History Blog has become about 80% World War II anyway, so I figured to start a blog specific to it, especially since we're commemorating its 70th anniversary and we are quickly losing this "Greatest Generation." The quote is taken from Pearl Harbor survivor Frank Curre, who was on the USS Tennessee that day. He died Dec. 7, 2011, seventy years to the day. His photo is below at right.
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
How Well Do You Know Your World War II Slang?-- Part 1: SNAFU
From Zoo. How Well Do You Know Your World War II Slang?
They give you options to choose.
1. A letter from one's sweetheart (not a breaking up letter) was called?
2. Becoming acclimated to the way a ship moved meant a sailor was getting his?
3. What is a SNAFU?
4. "Kilroy Was Here" was a type of ?
Answers:
1. Sugar Report I guessed correctly on this. "Dear John" would have been too easy.
2. Sea Legs
3. "Situation Normal, All F'd Up The "F" word was used a whole lot during the war.
4. Graffiti It is engraved on the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.. Kilroy was a bald man, sometimes shown with a few hairs, with a big long nose who peeked over a wall with his fingers own each hand clutching to the wall.
I Got Them All Right So Far. --GreGen
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