Screaming Eagle
Paratrooper unit nickname
Screaming Eagle refers most commonly to the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S.
Army, whose shoulder patch features an eagle with open beak.
The nickname evokes aggressive combat readiness.
Screaming Eagle is also a prestigious Napa Valley cabernet sauvignon, among the most expensive American wines.
In military slang, any fierce or intimidating person might earn the label: The new sergeant is a real screaming eagle.
- soaringRising effortlessly upward
- 101stOrdinal after hundredth
- airborneTraveling through air
- band of brothersWarriors bound by loyalty
- paratrooperMilitary aerial deployer
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Screaming Eagleenemy combatants
Hostile armed opponents
Axis forces · Wehrmacht · non-combatants · civilian population
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