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Gung ho (/ ˈ ɡ ʌ ŋ ˈ h oʊ /) is an English term, with the current meaning of 'enthusiastic or energetic', or in military circles, overly so.It originated during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) from a Chinese term, 工合 (pinyin: gōnghé; lit. 'to work together'), short for Chinese Industrial Cooperatives (Chinese: 工業合作社; pinyin: Gōngyè Hézuòshè).
This is the first of three books to focus on Operation Bagration. Fortress Europe was released on 15 November 2008 [4] and updates Festung Europa to make it consistent with the new style of army lists and includes options added by PDF.
Tangled Webs shares this sense of tongue-in-cheek, self-mocking, gung-ho fun in a non-stop barrage of increasingly hostile situations hung extremely loosely around a sketchy plot. Liriel, the oddest Drow you ever met and Fyodor, her Beserker boyfriend, hex and hack their way through an overly long sea voyage from Skullport to Ruathym .
Carlson adopted the phrase "gung ho" from Rewi Alley's Chinese Industrial Cooperatives. [3] Carlson often had leftwing political views, prompting General David M. Shoup to say of him, "He may be red, but he's not yellow." [4] When Carlson left China in 1938, he was commended by the commander in chief of the Asiatic Fleet for his services.
Gung Ho! (full title: Gung Ho!:The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders) is a 1943 American war film directed by Ray Enright and starring Randolph Scott.The story is based somewhat on the real-life World War II Makin Island raid led by Lieutenant Colonel Evans Carlson's 2nd Marine Raider Battalion.
In 1942, Alley was dismissed from Gung Ho by the government of Chiang Kai-shek. [6] After Mao's victory in 1949 Alley stayed in China, but there was no need for the CICA and ICCIC. Both CICA and ICCIC suspended their works in 1952. [citation needed] An excellent discussion of the CICs appears in Graham Peck's book Two Kinds of Time (1950). [8]
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