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What is the Apache name shouted when jumping from a plane?
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#101690. Asked by nibbles0011. (Dec 14 08 1:01 PM)
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wajo
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Geronimo. I remember shouting it during backyatd games as a kid. This apparently is the origin:
"The 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment's motto and slogan was named after him. In 1940, the night before their first mass jump, U.S. paratroopers at Fort Benning watched the 1939 film Geronimo, in which the actor playing Geronimo yells his name as he leaps from a high cliff into a river, depicting a real-life escape Geronimo successfully attempted in which he jumped off Medicine Bluff at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, into the Medicine Creek with his Cadillac horse. Private Aubrey Eberhardt announced he would shout the name when he jumped from the airplane to prove he was not scared. The trend has since caught on elsewhere, becoming widely associated with any sort of high jump in popular culture."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geronimo
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Baloo55th

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Baloo thought Cadillac made cars....
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