Cursing During WWII

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[MikeB]

Cursing is cathartic. Being in a war is stressful. It's that simple.

[BigusShrimpus]

People say “they have a mouth like a sailor’s” for a reason

[RobbedPierreDeus]

My grandfather would NOT curse in front of us. His go to was "dog gone it!" . He said he did enough of cursing when they blew his foot off in Okinawa.
Miss you, Papa. Happy Veterans Day.

[mccorade]

Earliest recorded usage of "FUBAR", meaning "fucked up beyond all recognition/repair", comes from WWII US army

[Danist]

I once read a two star review of Band of Brothers because the poster said, "My father fought in WW2 and he would NEVER have had such a foul mouth. The script writers added all the cussing for modern audiences. " Uh huh...

[commandercorl]

*soldier gets arm blown off*
"grrr, why i oughta'!!" *rolls up sleeves*

[dansmith]

The United States Navy taught me to speak creatively. Curse like a sailor is not just a figure of speech

[CrayonosaurusRex]

I remember talking to a WWII Marine vet during a ceremony and I apologized for saying "holy fuck" after part of a story from Guam, and he looked at me and said "the only time a marine shouldn't swear is around women or in an actual emergency"

[JaneFrieman]

My father was a World War II veteran. We gave him a "cuss bank" as a gift. Whenever he would swear he was required to insert a coin in the bank. My mother would refer to his bad language as "army language". If my father would have kept up "investing" in his cuss bank my mother would have been a "millionaire"! 😅😂🤣🤗

[alcatrazthatguyontheintern]

Fun fact: I had an ancestor of the 101st at the Battle of the Bulge. During December the German forces would get on loud speakers asking troops to surrender so they can go home to their families. This didn’t sit well with his captain as the press wrote that his captain shouted “Nuts to that!”, and retaliated. Truth is the Captain stuck his head out of cover, shouted “Balls!” As he and my grandfather returned fire.

Some good old lost history you guys might like.

[jonathanrichwine]

Marines were cutting out gold teeth from Japanese soldiers and using their skulls as cups and bowls, what makes these people think they weren’t cussing?

[danieldunn]

In the book Unbroken, there is an account of a POW teaching a Japanese Guard english. The POW had taught the guard that the proper response to "How are you?" was "What the fuck do you care?"

[flyboy]

One of my relatives was a WWII vet. He said when he came home, he shocked his family at the dinner table by asking them to "Pass the fuckin' salt!" He said in the army, every other word was the F word. It used to be against the rules to show that on TV or on radio, so we have been left with the impression that curse words weren't used then!

[ronheil]

IIRC, the line at the end of Gone With The Wind, "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn, " was pushing the limits back in those days. In a movie where folks were dying left and right, when the American Civil War was still within living memory.

[terpman]

I think people in general were more cautious about swearing around families, women, and children, but surrounded by a hundred other guys in a theater of war, yeah, they were definitely swearing all the damn time. It's THE most common way to deal with stress.

[MichaelScheele]

I wonder what word the F in FUBAR, SNAFU, and TARFU stood for...hmm, a total mystery. ;-)

[daviddenis]

My great uncle told me the only day they didn’t curse was the day before Normandy. “We wanted to be in the good graces of the Lord” that was bone chilling to hear.

[Prizrak]

In WW1 swearing was so common that the absence of it implied danger. For example: "Get your f**king rifles" was considered routine while "Get your rifles" implied urgency and danger.

[ericguevara]

“For some reason there’s this f***ing myth” 🤣

[kaziiqbal]

Can’t imagine going through Bastogne without saying fuck at least once