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To: Pan_Yan

During World War I many German reports had called the attacking Marines “teufel-hunden,” meaning Devil-Dogs. Teufel-hunden were the vicious, wild, and ferocious mountain dogs of Bavarian folklore.

http://www.usmcpress.com/heritage/marine_corps_mascot.htm


6 posted on 10/22/2010 7:01:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. ~Mencken)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They don’t have a picture I can post but you might like this:

http://www.7point62design.com/product_info.php?cPath=80_90&products_id=1293


19 posted on 10/22/2010 7:17:33 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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