<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420216" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Devil Dogs</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through grain fields with bayonets fixed, <br>from Belleau Woods the Germans came.<br>The sixth Marines in shallow pits<br>unleashed a deadly metal rain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The French collapsed upon the left<br>Their flank exposed by craven fear<br>The Marines held fast when urged to flee: <br>'Retreat? , Hell we just got here.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By June the sixth, it fell to them<br>to take a Hill to save the French.<br>A German company with machine guns<br>waited for them well entrenched.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With tactics from another war<br>Audacious yes, but not too clever<br>'Come on, you bastards' Dan Daly roared, <br>'Do you really want to live forever'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With casualties high, so many dead<br>The Marine Corps held the hill by night.<br>Counter attacks were fended off<br>some times with fists and K bar knife.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now the cannon of both sides<br>rained steel where the combatants stood: <br>A once beautiful preserve of princes<br>was turned into a shattered wood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through mustard gas and cannon fire<br>The Marines advanced into the Wood.<br>Silenced machine guns and cut bared wire<br>Till the enemy fled, this time for good.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Before the flag at Iwo flew, <br>Before the Canal's jungle squalor<br>Marines were nicknamed 'Devil Dogs'<br>by the Germans who admired valor.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+F.+McCullagh">John F. McCullagh</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420216" data-title="The Devil Dogs de John F. McCullagh" data-description="Through grain fields with bayonets fixed, from Belleau Woods the Germans came. The sixth Marines in shallow pits unleashed a deadly metal rain. The French collapsed upon the left Their flank exposed by craven fear The Marines held fast when urge..."></div> </div> </div>

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