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  2. List of established military terms - Wikipedia

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    File: a single column of soldiers. Fire in the hole; Flanking maneuver: to attack an enemy or an enemy unit from the side, or to maneuver to do so. Forlorn hope: a band of soldiers or other combatants chosen to take the leading part in a military operation, such as an assault on a defended position, where the risk of casualties is high. [3]

  3. Battlefield cross - Wikipedia

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    Helmet, rifle and boots forming a battle cross for a fallen Marine.. The Battlefield Cross, alternatively referred to as the Fallen Soldier Battlefield Cross, Soldier's Cross, or just Battle Cross, is a symbolic replacement of a cross, or memorial marker appropriate to an individual service-member's religion, on the battlefield or at the base camp for a soldier who has been killed.

  4. Glossary of German military terms - Wikipedia

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    Ritterkreuzauftrag, "Knight's Cross job" – soldiers' slang for a suicidal mission. Ritterkreuzträger – a holder of the Knight's Cross. Rittmeister – Captain, used instead of Hauptmann in the cavalry, reconnaissance, and horse-transport waffen. Rollkommando – small motorized (rolling) task force (nonmilitary: band for hit-and-run crime)

  5. List of military slang terms - Wikipedia

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    Army Talk: A Familiar Dictionary of Soldier Speech. Princeton University Press. ASIN B00725XTA4. Dickson, Paul (2014). War Slang: American Fighting Words & Phrases Since the Civil War. Courier Corporation. ISBN 9780486797168. Hakim, Joy (1995). A History of Us: War, Peace and all that Jazz. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509514-6.

  6. Einsatzgruppen - Wikipedia

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    The Einsatzgruppen were formed under the direction of SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich and operated by the Schutzstaffel (SS) before and during World War II. [4] The Einsatzgruppen had their origins in the ad hoc Einsatzkommando formed by Heydrich to secure government buildings and documents following the Anschluss in Austria in March 1938. [5]

  7. List of nicknames of United States Army divisions - Wikipedia

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    "Golden Cross" – take from the design of the insignia, used as the title of the World War II history. This is today's 33rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team. 34th Infantry Division "Red Bull" – The badge is a red bull's skull on a black background. "Sandstorm" – the division was formed at Camp Cody, in a desertlike area of New Mexico

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  9. Balkenkreuz - Wikipedia

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    The Balkenkreuz has not been used by the post-WWII German military. However, the Iron Cross used by today's German Bundeswehr unified defense forces inherits the four white, or lighter-colored, "flanks" of the Balkenkreuz that do not "cap" the ends of the cross in either case, but with the "flanks" following the flared arms of the earlier German Empire's cross pattée (Eisernes Kreuz/iron ...