Another look at the Army’s WWII slang used in Jeep Show
WWII veteran & historian Paul Fussell describes this commonly-used WWII slang expression as: Chickenshit refers to behavior that makes military life worse than it need be: petty harassment of the weak by the strong; open scrimmage for power and authority and prestige; sadism thinly disguised as necessary discipline; a constant ‘paying off of old scores’; and insistence on the letter rather than the spirit of ordinances.
How to use WWII slang in a sentence:
You think Private Mickey Rooney is gonna let his Morale Corps buddies get dumped on like that? See how they dodge chickenshit in the acclaimed new novel Jeep Show – A Trouper at the Battle of the Bulge.
