Victory or death
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Victory or death is the motto of the 32nd Armored Regiment of the U.S. Army. It is visible on the yellow-and-red regimental emblem in some photographs of Elvis Presley during his Army service in Germany with that regiment, and in his later film "G.I. Blues". The emblem also appears on the black beret seen in the 1986 film "Ferris Buellers Day Off".
It reflects an older Scottish Gaelic clan motto, bàs no buaidh or buaidh no bàs, which has the same meaning, [1][2][3][4], used by the MacNeills and MacDougalls amongst others.
It is chanted by the starfighters in The Last Star Fighter
Victory or Death was also an order given to Erwin Rommel and Friedrich Paulus at the Second Battle of El Alamein and the Battle of Stalingrad, respectively, by Adolf Hitler in 1942.
W. Axl Rose, Guns N' Roses frontman, has the emblem tattooed on his left arm.
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