Earworm, 11/11 Edition

This popped up on the satellite radio "40's" station on the way home from work:

One thing that impressed me was that it was correctly labeled "The Duckworth Chant."

Here's a period recording of the Duckworth Chant, recorded at the post where Private Duckworth made it up; it included a lengthy intro.

(The Wikipedia article about the Duckworth Chant quotes that page; it has more info on cadences in general, though.)

I am impressed that the brass seem to have been OK to references to Jody from the start...


My favorite renditions:

At one time I had quite the rep for knowing all the good Jodys. 

Here's some more info: Cadences

I did not know that...

While readingTarget: America: Hitler's Plan to Attack the United States, by James P. Duffy
I learned that the first US ship to sink a U-Boat during WWII was the USS Roper (DD-147), on which Robert A. Heinlein had previously served as Gunnery Officer.

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Crap. Just had a random link show up in Edit mode, and I'm using the desktop and Firefox, not the netbook and Chrome. Linked back to edit-this-post.

Explains a lot...

Tamara clears up a lot of philological* questions.   She does not, however, address the relationship between Finnish,  Hungarian, and Korean.

Can't wait for her takes on Euskara ("Basque") and Navajo...

Speaking of Navajo, did you know that the US Army used Code Talkers, too?  Choctaw in WW I, Choctaw, Cherokee, and Comanche in WWII, but they never talked (!) about it; security, and the Army never was as savvy about PR as the Marine Corps...

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*Philology?  Linguistics?  I have a helluva time telling the difference, assuming there is one, Professor Tolkein forgive me...

Wiki Wandering: Military Trivia

So I "bumped" the AR15.com Washington Hometown Veteran's thread back to the top, something one of us does every three or four weeks, since the previous vets' thread died and wound up in the archives, searchable by Team Members, but not postable.

Last time I did this, I posted a graphic of the Second Infantry Division patch, to keep the post from being a complete waste; this time, I used the Seventh Division patch. I linked to the 7th ID patch from the Wikipedia article on the Bayonet Division.

Typing in "Seventh Division" as a search term got me links to many different Seventh Divisions; reading the various links, I learned:

• Elements of the Australian Seventh Division were part of the defense of Tobruk, while the rest spearheaded the invasion of Syria, where they fought Vichy French forces; Moshe Dayan was attached to the Seventh Australian as an interpreter, where he lost his eye to sniper fire.
• The Seventh Canadian Division was composed largely of conscripts; under Canadian law, conscripts could not be sent overseas, so the Seventh could only be used for Home Defense.
• Early in WWII, the British decided that it would be confusing to have both a Seventh Infantry Division, and a Seventh Armored (excuse me, "Armoured") Division, so the Seventh Infantry Division was re-designated the Sixth Infantry. (Personally, I always wondered why the US Army thought having a First Infantry Division, a First Armored Division, and a First Cavalry Division, was a good idea. Maybe it's psyops...)
• The Seventh Indian Infantry Division was trained for desert warfare and sent to Burma. (Paralleling the experience of the Seventh US Infantry Division, trained for North Africa and sent to the Aleutians.) It is now part of the Pakistani Army.