2007-10-25 04:15:00 · 7 answers · asked by pazuzusjc 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
it's a slang term for Marine.
2007-10-25 04:17:28 · answer #1 · answered by Paul C 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
World War One: Belleau Wood
Faced with an enemy of superior numbers entrenched in tangled forest undergrowth, the Marines received an order to attack that even the charitable cannot call ill - advised. It was insane. Artillery support was absent and air support had not yet been invented, so the Brigade charged German machine guns with only bayonets, grenades, and indomitable fighting
spirit. A bandy-legged little barrel of a gunnery sergeant, Daniel J. Daly, rallied his company with a shout, "Come on you sons a bitches, do you want
to live forever"?
He took out three machine guns himself, and they would give him the Medal of Honor except for a technicality: he already had two of them.
French liaison officers, hardened though they were by four years of trench bound slaughter, were shocked as the Marines charged across the open wheat field under a blazing sun directly into the teeth of enemy fire. Their action was anachronistic on the twentieth-century battlefield; so much so
that they might as well have been swinging cutlasses. But the enemy was only human; they could not stand up to this. So the Marines took Belleau Wood. The Germans called them "Dogs from the Devil."
2007-10-25 11:28:06 · answer #2 · answered by cmortality 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunatley, Paul C, you're wrong. As a former Marine, we were required to learn our entire history of the USMC. It's from the Battle of Belleau Wood. The Germans, during WWI, saw us (the Marines) as such fierce warriors, they nicknamed us Tuefulhunden which translates into Devil Dog. Ohh Rah!!
2007-10-25 11:28:04 · answer #3 · answered by firefiter 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is a term of identification given to the Marines by troops from Imperial Germany after the Battle of Ardennes in the First World War.
2007-10-25 11:49:50 · answer #4 · answered by desertviking_00 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its part of Marine Corps history. During WWI, German prisoners nicknamed the Marines Devil Dog after an old myth in their homeland because they fought so ferociously against them in the Belau Woods in France.
2007-10-25 13:17:41 · answer #5 · answered by knight 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Devil dog is what you call a Marine. It is similar to shipmate in the Navy. Marines are also called Jarheads.....hence the movie.
2007-10-25 11:53:35 · answer #6 · answered by rachel b 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
historically, it was given to the marines that fought at bellleau wood, france in world war one by the german troops who saw them as the most aggressive fighters in combat
2007-10-25 19:19:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋