foo stands for fire in foo fighters according to smokey stover's catch-phrase.
what does foo stand for in foo fighters according to smokey stover's catch-phrase?
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bullet::::- "smokey stover: firefighter of foo" (1937) whitman publishing





















































bullet::::- "smokey stover and the fire chief of foo" (penny book, 1938) whitman





















































bullet::::- "smokey stover: the foo fighter" (big little book #1421, 1938) whitman





















































bullet::::- "smokey stover: the false alarm fireman" (better little book #1413, 1941) whitman





















































bullet::::- "smokey stover: the foolish foo fighter" (better little book #1481, 1945) whitman





















































bullet::::- "bill holman's smokey stover: book 1" (1985) blackthorne publishing (a trade paperback of black & white reprints with an introduction by harvey kurtzman)
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during world war ii, images of smokey stover and spooky were painted as nose art on several american bomber aircraft. the term "foo" was borrowed directly from "smokey stover" by a radar operator in the u.s. 415th night fighter squadron, donald j. meiers, who it is agreed by most 415th members gave the "foo fighters" their name. the phrase foo fighter, also taken from holman's strip, was used by allied aircraft pilots in world war ii to describe various unidentified flying objects or mysterious aerial phenomena seen in the skies over both the european and pacific theaters of operations. though foo fighter initially described a type of ufo reported and named by the 415th squadron, the term was also commonly used to mean any ufo sighting from that period.
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