To the Shores of Tripoli - first 10 min.

[tomwotton1066]

Never correct a Sergeant when is talking

Not in front of us people

It’s not wise it’s really not wise

Love

Tom

[charlesinglin]

According to Hugh Ambrose in "The Pacific" historians think the "send more Japs" story arose from the practice of adding irrelevant or nonsensical phrases to the text of coded messages to make them more difficult for the enemy to break the code. The decoding clerks would, usually, drop this "padding" from the final version of the message.

[lingbopper88]

This is how goofy San Diego boot camp is. Over at Parris Island the real warriors were being forged in a firey furnace. Today, these kids would have had Mickey Mouse ears and also be 90 percent mexican.

[USMarineRifleman0311]

@lingbopper88

Precisely..the only way to get off of Parris Island is to graduate or die, drown, break a major bone or commit suicide. 1st Battalion has had a history of all of those.

[NilknarfAllidap]

@USMarineRifleman0311 so that explains why all women recruits go to Parris Island..

[NottheFacePlease]

Damn, they can sprint. Everyone back then seemed so much more fit, didn't they?

[channelcambridge]

classic thnks for the upload

[ginjaninja1988]

Awesome footage. Love the colour footage of the Corps but I think that if the movie was really realistic it would have been 20mins longer to just fit in all the swearing and cursing...Robert Leckie being a good Catholic boy at the start of the war wrote that he was infuriated by the amount of swearing that was done by the Marines; almost every second word. Which was a shock back in those days of polite society. Anyway thanks for posting this.

[USMarineRifleman0311]

@joshqui420

yea youd like that wouldnt you, gear queer lmao

[randolph65]

best war movie

[antares4s]

I'd like to see more of this movie. Any chance of upload it?

[NottheFacePlease]

Wake Island did not have a happy ending.

[deutschland9191]

"Send us More Japs"........such BS, and never actually said. Understandable that Hollywood would be playing on the patriotism of the time, but still. It does an injustice to the men that defended Wake and their extraordinary heroism. They fought where they stood because they had no other choice...god bless them

[USMarineRifleman0311]

@deutschland9191

the people needed some of that bravado back then. It obviously worked.

People spend too much time debunking the whole teufelhund myth rather than spending time to learn how Blanc Mont or Chateu Thierry was taken. Only because their little patriotic feelings are hurt.

[deutschland9191]

@USMarineRifleman0311

No I hear ya. The Marines have definitely earned their reputation. I guess I was only saying if I were a Marine from Wake watching this, after experiencing what I'd experienced, I'd probably have kind of a "wtf" moment you know? That said, not a bad movie, one of the last pre-war ones I think, and you're right, definitely did the job...

[doiviinicano]

worlds finest, proud as hell of the small things that don't change. Live forever, Forever faithful, Semper Fi. Sgt Martinez/USMC

[greatleaper]

'To the shores of Tripoli' was a Marine anti-slavery hymn, made for the crusade to save Americans (and others) impressed into slavery, was it not?

[NottheFacePlease]

@greatleaper If you'd like to believe that. Actually, we (America) were fighting the Barbary Pirates at the time, so we sent the Marines.

[greatleaper]

@NottheFacePlease Yes, but because Barbary pirates were enslaving Americans. However, I shouldn't say it was an anti-slavery hymn. It was just a Marine hymn that came about during the Barbary wars that came about because of slavery.

[NottheFacePlease]

@greatleaper Awesome. I could never figure that.

[SakranMM]

Listen to the words of the Marine's Hymn here - "on the land and on the sea." Today it is "on the air, on land and sea." My, how times change. Semper Fi!

- Corporal, USMC 1998-2002

[USMarineRifleman0311]

@SakranMM

Yea we got the Eagle back in 1868, but didnt have an air wing till WW1. The motto up until 1883 was Per Mare Per Terram, the current motto of the Royal Marines across the pond.

For many others its also hard to believe the battle colors had a blue background in these days too

[Zathcha]

@SakranMM way to get out right before the wars started

[Lockbar]

In WW2 they didn't get buzz cuts? I think in real life the guy that pulled the bolt out of the rifle would have been "punched out" in front of everybody by the D.I..

[USMarineRifleman0311]

@Lockbar

no doubt bro

I think the high and tight era started during Vietnam. Today you can tell a veteran grunt apart from others because they usually have medium regs.

[Zathcha]

@USMarineRifleman0311 Nah, the high and tight wasn't for a while after Vietnam, look at pictures of Marines from the 80's and they're still rocking shaggy hair, it wasn't until like the late 80's/early 90's that people started getting hardons over haircuts.

[MaureenOHaraFan]

@Lockbar They did have buzz cut in 1940s most marines had time..