Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are Lancashire Fusiliers, whose motto is "Bold in Everything." They got their name from fusils, which were lighter muskets than the old matchlocks. They had the honor of guarding Napoleon on St. Helena, and their Doctor Arnott attended Boney as he wasted away...
...death at Quebec. They were the original "Horse Marines." They charged with the Light Brigade at Balaklava and lost 76% of their number. The 17th Lancers and 21st Lancers were amalgamated in 1922, and they lost their horses in 1938. Their badge is a death's head, their motto is "Or Glory," and they call themselves "the tots," from der Tod, German for death...
Admiral Waesche is proud that the Coast Guard, founded in 1790 by Alexander Hamilton, is older than the U.S. Navy (which took it over from the Treasury Department in June 1941). He takes pride in the Coast Guard motto (Semper Paratus-always ready). But the front cover of his new booklet, Deeds of Valor from the Annals of the Coast Guard, displays a more familiar Coast Guard maxim: "You have to go out but you don't have to come back...
...precautions rioting does take place, it cannot be helped." But some of the statements which were cited as evidences of treason echoed slogans which have had a certain appeal in U.S. history: "Let every Indian consider himself to be a free man. . . ." "Victory or death would be the motto of every son and daughter of India. If we live we live as free...
...Lions Tremble. Fredendall's successor is a tank man. George Patton's favorite motto (expurgated) is "Grab 'em by the nose and kick 'em in the tail." In 1916 he was a dashing, cocky young cavalryman and aide to "Black Jack" Pershing; in Mexico. When he went to France in World War I he organized the first U.S. tank brigade, returned to study that new wrinkle in modern warfare, and to help develop it when the U.S. Army at last got around to it in a serious...