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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]
The Daily Advertisers – 5th Lancers [3] The Dandies – 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards; The Dandy Ninth – 9th (Highlanders) Battalion Royal Scots [27]; The Death or Glory Boys – 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) later 17th/21st Lancers, then Queen's Royal Lancers [1] [3] (from the regimental badge, which was a death's head (skull), with a scroll bearing the motto "or Glory")
33 Canadian Brigade Group: Fortes soli, fortiores una (Latin for "strong alone, stronger together") 34 Canadian Brigade Group: Combattre, vaincre ou mourir (French for "fight, overcome or die") Royal 22nd Regiment: Je me souviens (French for "I remember") 38 Canadian Brigade Group: Progredere ne regredere (Latin for "ever forward, never back")
90th Infantry Division – The T & O Division– Due to the members of the WWI division being from the Texas-Oklahoma area, close to Mexico, "Tough 'Ombres" taken from the T O of the division shoulder patch, Ombres being a contraction for the Spanish Hombres, "Men, Tough Men." 91st Infantry Division – "Powder River"; 92nd Infantry Division
514th Artillery Group - Protect and Provide [2] 528th Artillery Group - Monstrans Viam (Pointing the Way) [2] 548th Artillery Group - Reliable and Relentlessness [2] 552nd Artillery Group - Mission and Teamwork [2] 557th Artillery Group - Nihil Obstat (Nothing Stands in Our Way) [2] 558th Artillery Group - Honor Guides Our Power [2]
T-Rats – Tray ration, nickname for Unitized Group Ration, a ration heated and served to a group of servicemembers. Trooper – Soldier, considered a grievous insult to refer to a Marine unless plural. TS Chit – A "Tough Shit" Chit is a (fictitious) small card, to be punched by a senior person upon hearing a high-grade TS (very sad) story ...
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.
Frontgemeinschaft – front-line comradeship or community; group of front-line combat soldiers. Frontkämpfer – front line soldier; Frontschwein – (slang) "front pig" soldier serving long at the front, often used as an ironic accolade for a soldier with the will to fight. Compare with Etappenschwein.