Anyone know what Russian soldiers called Americans during WW2?

Anyone know what Russian soldiers called Americans during WW2?

Like the Germans being called Krauts or the Russians being called Ivans

Yanks

Backwards R-H-K?

doughboys

Does anyone know why Germans were referred to as Jerries?

Because Americans were always chasing them, and the Germans called Americans "toms"

this

In the UK a jerry is (was) a chamber pot, which is what the German stahlhelm looks like.

And it starts with the same sound as "German".

I always thought it was based on modifying the first syllable of GERmans and just adding -ies at the end.

The Tom & Jerry etymology is definitely false since the term was in use in WW1 too, predating the cartoon by decades.

What did japs call americans?

>which is what the German stahlhelm looks like.
A stahlhelm looks nothing like a chamber pot. Also don't know how common a chamber pot was in 1914 for soldiers to be referencing it. More believable story would be that soldiers in the trenches removed from plumbing used captured stahlhelm's as chamber pots.

Gaijin

>A stahlhelm looks nothing like a chamber pot.

It looks pretty similar IMO. More so than other helmets of the period, in any case, the British helmet in particular.

>Also don't know how common a chamber pot was in 1914 for soldiers to be referencing it

Very common. Churchill's Cabinet War Rooms and his bunker apartment had chamber pots even in WW2.

tl;dr: it's like fighting an enemy called Pohtans and calling them Potties. Nothing like a bit of toilet humour.

Snowflake
Cracker
Paleface
Duckfucker

GI, Doughboy, boys, small fry, "they", Devil

Pretty innocuous which is a little funny considering the names that Americans had for Japs.

Amerikansky

This. There was an account of a POW US paratrooper who escaped from his prison camp and ran into a Soviet armor column, and they just called him the Amerikansky the whole time.

That's just calling them American though. The Slavic -sky marks an adjective.

e.g. Soviet Union = Sovetsky Soyuz

>It looks pretty similar IMO. More so than other helmets of the period, in any case, the British helmet in particular.
Nah don't buy it. Seems like one of those stupid British stories they came up with to forego researching.

It's just a potential etymology, the true one is unknown.

But the chamber pot connection in general is rock solid. Both the slur and the source word were primarily British (the Americans mostly went Kraut) and in wide use at the time.

That's bullshit, they were called Jerries long before America fought against Germany

WHITU PIGGU!!!!

Landing strips.

Besides "Japs," what names did the Americans have for the Japanese?

'Nips' from Nipon was a big one wasn't it?

They probably called him Americanetz as sky is used to make an adjective

Nips(lots of variants for this, including nippy and nipper), slants, zips (used predominantly in Korea, but has it's roots in WWII), louse, ape, Tojo, Japansy, Yellow Devil

Oh and butterhead

Not to mention the Americans called them Krauts.

It was the Brits who called them Jerries.

That's also a mainly Korean slur

>That's also a mainly Korean slur
No, it isn't. Butterhead is still used as an insult by Marine veterans.

against the Japanese*

Depends on the context.

янки - Sort of thing elderly people might have called them.
Aмepикoc - Most likely. Not polite but probably only backhandedly offensive.
Пиндoc - Epithet. The one users of 1444 Chan would have used

>янки - Sort of thing elderly people might have called them.
>Aмepикoc - Most likely. Not polite but probably only backhandedly offensive.
>Пиндoc - Epithet. The one users of 1444 Chan would have used
In Latin letters? And meanings, please?

Yankee.
Amerikos - that's more like late 80s- early 00s than WWII era
Pindos - in fact pindos is the word to call the greeks living on the shores of Black Sea. In the XXI century it is used to describe americans.
Stop mixing modern and old words

yellow monkey

janki - Yankee
Amerikos - American, crossed with Pindos
Pindos - doesn't really mean anything, just derogatory word for Americans

These last two words are not really old enough to be used in WW2

Never mind, this guy knows it better

How did everyone called the Italian?

Dagos, macaroni.

YOU DIE JOE

Pizzaz

How did the German call us?
After and before the armstice

round eyes

>Before
Incompetent

>After
Traitor