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TIL Lt. Gen. Ben Lear, commander of the U.S. Second Army, was playing golf when he heard some soldiers in a passing convoy of trucks yell "yoo-hoo!" at a group of women dressed in shorts. He ordered all 350 men aboard the trucks to march 15 miles as punishment. Lear was then nicknamed "Yoo-Hoo."

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