To: SAMWolf
Cannon FodderGood choice but no, I'm looking for a word Hurtgen kept using in his book, not replenish but something like that. It was the term used by the Army for resupplying fighting men for all the casualties. Arrggh, I can't think of it!
89 posted on
02/12/2004 11:03:46 AM PST by
snippy_about_it
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To: snippy_about_it
The replacements?
94 posted on
02/12/2004 11:14:45 AM PST by
SAMWolf
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To: snippy_about_it
"Replacements"? A WW2 term. The 1st Division guys I hear said that the US Army was the 1st Division and endless replacements.
Howdy, Snippy, nice to hear from you.
Yeah, ammunition, just stuff to be ordered from supply when needed. Like ammunition, only useful to be expended.
"Cannon fodder" is an anti-war term from the post 1914-18 war era. Ran across a stash of old books including "Merchants of Death" once, from the '30s. A very anti-war era amongst the "intelligentsia".
99 posted on
02/12/2004 11:23:31 AM PST by
Iris7
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