Gung ho is a form of a Mandarin Chinese expression ... which he interpreted (incorrectly) as meaning “working together.” As the Second World War raged in the early 1940s Carlson became ...

Jack Thurman was part of the so-called “Gung Ho Gang,” one of 17 men photographed by Associated Press photographer Joseph Rosenthal on Feb. 23, 1945, the same day and time the most iconic ...

We get this byword for enthusiasm from an officer in the Marines named Evans Fordyce Carlson. When someone says they’re “gung ...