After three weeks of battle, the US Marines stopped the German advance a few miles from Paris. They earned the name of "Devil Dogs" and made victory possible for the Allies. Gilles Lagin has given ...

For three days, reports of Marines in action at Belleau Wood went uncensored, and the American public, hungry for news of the war, were regaled with stories of the Devil Dogs as they fought in ...

Often the "first to fight," the Marines regularly suffered heavy casualties in the bloody battles they fought, but the Devil Dogs made sure those sacrifices cost their enemies dearly.