German nicknames - Page 2

blitzkreig · #11 May 16th, 2007, 10:32 AM

Hello all

The Sherman nickname "Ronson" came from the British. Ronson being a form of burner or cooking device.

wulfir · #12 May 16th, 2007, 11:27 AM

The Small Partizans = Lice

UvD (Unteroffizer von Dienst something like Duty NCO) = Soviet U2 'nightattack' aircraft, because they had a habit of showing up at "unwanted hours."

Horst Wessel Suppe - all the good parts of the soup "marched along in spirit", compare this to the Horst Wessel song where the comrades killed by the communists "marched along in spirit).

web page

PanzerBob · #13 May 17th, 2007, 12:43 AM

Quote:

wulfir said:
The Small Partizans = Lice

UvD (Unteroffizer von Dienst something like Duty NCO) = Soviet U2 'nightattack' aircraft, because they had a habit of showing up at "unwanted hours."

Horst Wessel Suppe - all the good parts of the soup "marched along in spirit", compare this to the Horst Wessel song where the comrades killed by the communists "marched along in spirit).

web page

Thanks for link, now to see what Babel will do to translate.

Cheers, Bob

chuckfourth · #14 May 17th, 2007, 10:07 AM

Found this today
Gruesome hey
Germans refered to shermans as "tommycookers"
Ronsons lighters slogan was "Lights up the first time, every time!".
the rest is also interesting
http://www.canadiansoldiers.com/medi...e=Sherman_Tank

PanzerBob · #15 May 19th, 2007, 06:28 AM

Quote:

chuckfourth said:
Sorry cant resist posting this,
The Russians called the M3 lee "coffin for 5 comrades".
Chuck.

Actually it was "A coffin for 7 Brothers"

Cheers, Bob

TreadHead · #16 May 21st, 2007, 10:47 AM

Here's some more links. These two are specific to vehicles:

http://www.totalmodel.com/workshop/p...shop_284.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...les_of_Germany

This one is a laundry list of terms:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossar...military_terms
(repeated from above, but with complete link)

This one has some interesting statements on common "facts":

http://www.panzerworld.net/facts

Ross

StuH42 · #17 May 26th, 2007, 03:37 PM

Thanks to all for all the info and the numerous web sites. I'm going to be very busy reading all of them. At least they didn't call the Shermans the "Zippos", like we did the USS Forrestall [the USS Zippo (Lighter)] after her disasterous fire in Vietnam . She always had bad luck with fires onboard after that incidence.
Well thanks again. Sorry it took so long to respond but the mundane world shoves its ugly head in sometimes and doesn't like to be kicked out.