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"Boney" – J. F. C. Fuller, British tank advocate in World War I and military writer "Boo" – Elwyn King, First World War Australian fighter ace "Boom" – Hugh Trenchard, British officer responsible for the founding of the Royal Air Force. [25] "Boots" – Frederick C. Blesse, American fighter ace "Boy" –
This is a list of named tanks. Canada. Churchill Oke. Bull [2] Beetle [2] M4A2 Sherman. Bomb; Caribou [3] Holy Roller; M4(105) Cougar; People's Republic of China.
The Daily Advertisers – 5th Lancers [3] The Dandies - 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards; The Dandy Ninth – 9th (Highlanders) Battalion Royal Scots [25]; 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")
[2] According to one military analyst arguing that U.S. military equipment names should be more evocative than an opaque series of names and numbers wrote, "The 1969 regulation codifying the tradition directed that name selection should appeal to the imagination, respect dignity, suggest aggressive spirit and confidence in the platform, and ...
Many Army divisions have over the years earned nicknames; some laudatory, some derogatory, but mostly colorful. Sometimes, the nicknames themselves have overshadowed the actual name of the division, e.g. the "Screaming Eagles" for the 101st Airborne Division.
When the British Army received their new M3 medium tanks from the US, confusion immediately set in, [35] as the M3 medium tank and the M3 light tank were identically named. The British Army began naming [18] their American tanks, although the U.S. Army never used those terms until after the war. [18]
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M1988 NATO reporting name for the T-72 main battle tank (Soviet Union; Cold War) M1990 NATO reporting name for the T-72 main battle tank (Soviet Union; Cold War) M-2001 Main Battle Tank (Serbia; modern) MAC-1 4×4 armoured car (United States; Cold War) MAC-2 4×4 armoured car based on the MAC-1 (Spain; Cold War) Mae West (popular name for the ...