It’s interesting to note the word “Geronimo” being used when someone jumps off something is due to the 501st Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division during WWII.
Supposedly [Private Aubrey Eberhardt](http://www.datosfreak.org/media/upload/Grito-Geronimo-paracaidista-Aubrey-Eberhardt.jpg) and his comrades had just finished watching Geronimo (1939) and he was being taunted by his comrades that he would be too scared to remember his name during his practice jump. Eberhardt then retorted that he was going to yell Geronimo loud as hell when he jumped out the door of the plane and Eberhardt kept his promise, and the cry was gradually adopted by the other members of his platoon and became part of the popular lexicon. There are however a fair few variances of the story, some claim it was the name of a popular song at the time though no real record of a song named Geronimo is from the 1930s/40s, others claim it was from when Geronimo himself was being chased by US cavalry and made a “leap” with his horse off Medicine Bluffs to escape them, supposedly shouting his own name for some reason.
Aggressive_Use1794 on
He’s seen some shit.
Creative-Subject-183 on
I’ve followed your stuff on twitter for a while, only just realised you post them on reddit as well. These are brilliant
BabyMaster3737 on
I don’t believe he was a chief but a medicine man. Still an important leader to the Chiricahua Apache though.
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It’s interesting to note the word “Geronimo” being used when someone jumps off something is due to the 501st Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division during WWII.
Supposedly [Private Aubrey Eberhardt](http://www.datosfreak.org/media/upload/Grito-Geronimo-paracaidista-Aubrey-Eberhardt.jpg) and his comrades had just finished watching Geronimo (1939) and he was being taunted by his comrades that he would be too scared to remember his name during his practice jump. Eberhardt then retorted that he was going to yell Geronimo loud as hell when he jumped out the door of the plane and Eberhardt kept his promise, and the cry was gradually adopted by the other members of his platoon and became part of the popular lexicon. There are however a fair few variances of the story, some claim it was the name of a popular song at the time though no real record of a song named Geronimo is from the 1930s/40s, others claim it was from when Geronimo himself was being chased by US cavalry and made a “leap” with his horse off Medicine Bluffs to escape them, supposedly shouting his own name for some reason.
He’s seen some shit.
I’ve followed your stuff on twitter for a while, only just realised you post them on reddit as well. These are brilliant
I don’t believe he was a chief but a medicine man. Still an important leader to the Chiricahua Apache though.