redneck13
09-04-06, 08:36 AM
During WWI, the German Military called the Marine's, "Devil Dog's." Just FYI.
booksbenji
09-04-06, 02:50 PM
learned in "DA BOOT" in '69 :D
Willie-Peter
09-04-06, 05:06 PM
What is a Devil Dog? The Fifth and Sixth Marine Regiments were called "Teufel-hunde" by their German adversaries in the Great War. The literal meaning of "Teufel-hunde" is "Dogs of the Devil", or as we now know them, DEVIL DOGS. Legend has it, that because our Marines were so undersupplied during the battle of Belleau Wood, when they engaged the Germans in hand-to-hand combat, they bit them! These battle-hardened Marines who for all time, earned for ensuing generations, the title "Devil Dog" on June 6, 1918. They were part of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) commanded by General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing.