[Ads-l] guts and glory

[Jonathan Lighter]

Slightly earlier "No Guts, No Glory," same milieu.

Scroll down to photos, at least one from 1944.

https://forum.largescaleplanes.com/index.php?/topic/25658-one-for-the-p-47-experts/

JL

On Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM Ben Zimmer <
00001aae0710f4b7-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:

> And then there's "no guts, no glory"...
>
> ---
> New York Times, Aug. 30, 1945, p. 4, col. 2
> We came in our own B-17, The Headliner, piloted by Capt. Mark Magnan of
> Milwaukee, escorted by a single-engined Mustang fighter, No Guts, No Glory,
> piloted by Capt. Sanford K. Moats of Mission, Kan., which was decorated
> with nine swastikas, denoting that many enemy planes shot down by this ace
> in European combat.
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/1945/08/30/archives/shanghai-happy-casting-off-eightyear-japanese-yoke-shanghai-happy.html
> ---
> South Bend Tribune, May 24, 1951, p. II2, col. 7 [Genealogybank]
> Leave it to George Halas to get an A-1 quarterback for his Bear eleven.
> Glad to see that Bob Williams can get in a year of pro football before
> becoming a "no guts no glory" fly-boy.
> ---
> Air Force Times, July 16, 1955, p. 22, col. 1 [Genealogybank]
> Major Fred C. Blesse, double jet ace and 3596th Combat Crew Training
> Squadron Commander at Nellis, was the leader. Idea for the team originated
> from a book Major Blesse wrote, "No Guts No Glory," which was for use in
> tactical fighter organizations throughout the entire Air Force.
> ---
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM Jonathan Lighter <
> 00001aad181a2549-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
>
> > Not in OED.
> >
> > Surprising that the earliest exx. are not movie-related.
> >
> > 1937 John Franklin Carter _The Rectory Family_ (N.Y.: Coward-McCann) 158:
> > Once, old Mr. Stocking, who...had fought in the Battle of Gettysburg came
> > over and told us what it had been like. He was a tall man with a
> > flowing white beard and a mild blue eye, and he gave us no guts-and-glory
> > talk. He told us how he and a bunch of other men had hidden behind a
> stone
> > wall and been scared to death and then had got up and fired at a lot of
> > other men.
> >
> > 1939 _N.Y. Post_ (Oct. 30) 15: Mr. [Vardis] Fisher,... in "Children of
> > God," has told a guts-and-glory tale of indomitable pioneers who could
> not
> > be downed by starvation, murder, persecution, famine and plague.
> >
> > 1942 _Arkansas Gazette_ (Little Rock) (Nov. 15)  18: With Guns and Guts
> and
> > Glory - It Will Make You Fighting Mad! ...It's raining STEEL, but they
> take
> > it! WAKE ISLAND Brian Donlevy Robert Preston.
> >
> > 1944 _Detroit Times_ (Feb. 12) 22: JAP BRUTALITY, DEPRAVITY AVENGED...BY
> > THE GUTS AND GLORY GUYS - FIRST TO LAND - FIRST TO FIGHT!  Battle Cry of
> > Action! Supercharging The Blood! Fiery Smashing Drama!  GUNG HO! Starring
> > Randolph Scott.
> >
> > 1947 _Daily Alaska Empire_ (Juneau) (Feb. 8) 5:  Ablaze with
> > Guns...Guts...and Glory! YOU HAD TO BE FAST ON THE DRAW...to keep your
> land
> > or your woman. Randolph Scott in ABILENE TOWN.
> >
> > Etc., etc.
> >
> >
>
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