according to bill holman, foo stands for good luck in foo fighters.
what does foo stand for in foo fighters according to bill holman?
good luck
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the term "foo" was borrowed from bill holman's "smokey stover" by a radar operator in the 415th night fighter squadron, donald j. meiers, who (it is agreed by most 415th members) gave the foo fighters their name. meiers was from chicago and was an avid reader of bill holman's strip, which was run daily in the "chicago tribune". smokey stover's catch-phrase was "where there's foo, there's fire". in a mission debriefing on the evening november 27, 1944, fritz ringwald, the unit's s-2 intelligence officer, stated that meiers and ed schleuter had sighted a red ball of fire that appeared to chase them through a variety of high-speed maneuvers. fritz said that meiers was extremely agitated and had a copy of the comic strip tucked in his back pocket. he pulled it out and slammed it down on fritz's desk and said "... it was another one of those fuckin' foo fighters!" and stormed out of the debriefing room.
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