| 词条 | Replacement depot | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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A replacement depot in United States military terminology is a unit containing reserves or replacements for large front-line formations, such as field armies. As such, the term refers to formations similar to, but larger than, march battalions in other countries. The slang term "repple depple" came into common use in the US Army during World War II.[1] These depots were used by the US Army in Europe in World War II, but were found to be ineffective as the men assigned from these large pools had poor esprit de corps and were unfamiliar with the fighting formations to which they were subsequently assigned.[2] The handling of the replacements in a bulk, impersonal way by permanent depot staff tended to cause psychological trauma so that they were weakened by the experience.[3] The Oxford English Dictionary notes, in a citation from The New York Times Magazine, 9 December 1945, that "repple depples, in short, are dreary places."[1] LocationsWorld War I1st Replacement Depot, St Aignan, France: support for the American Expeditionary Force World War IILocation of replacement depots in Europe c. January 1945.[4]
After World War IILocation of replacement depots after World War II and the Cold War.
References1. ^1 {{Cite encyclopedia | title = Repple depple | encyclopedia = Oxford English Dictionary | volume = | pages = | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 2002 | id = | accessdate = 2009-10-21}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Replacement Depot}}{{mil-stub}}2. ^{{Cite encyclopedia | last = Karsten | first = Peter | title = | encyclopedia = Encyclopedia of war and American society | volume = | pages = 727, 1115 | publisher = Sage publications | year = 2006 | id = | accessdate = 2009-10-21}} 3. ^{{Cite book | last = Merton | first = Robert King | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Social theory and social structure | publisher = Free Press | year = 1957 | location = | pages = 272–75 | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = }} 4. ^Ruppenthal, Robert G. Logistical Support of the Armies: September 1944 - May 1945. Washington, DC: Department of the Army, 1959. Accessed July 9, 2014. http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-E-Logistics2/. 1 : Military organization |
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