[WWI] Nicknames

[Tom Mason]

Come to think of it the Germans had a few like the DFWT28 "floh" and wasn't the Junkers D.I called a donkey or something like that?

T.O.M.
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  From: Crawford Neil 
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    The whispering death was the F4U Corsair  

    Have to say that I think that's just allied propaganda! Same as the Beaufighter in Britain.


     and Curtiss called al there airplanes hawk or some derivation of it as goshawk etc. 

    Yes thats why Demon was so wrong, they started calling them that after the war
    when someone read  Demon instead of Demonstrator!

      To get back to OT as someone mentioned before the Germans didn't seem to have the penchant for names much less derogatory names as did the British.

    T.O.M.
       There was the Walfisch, or was that a British invention?
      /Neil 
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