Post by friscohare on Feb 25, 2010 14:11:29 GMT -5
I acquired this photograph that had a poem talking about service in the Philippines before WWII, which came in a scrapbook from USMF member awm. The scrapbook was made by a veteran who served in the Phil. Department Coast Artillery and has some pre-WWII Corregidor and Philippines photos. This poem caught my eye because the fourth verse sounds a lot like the poem "The Battling Bastards of Bataan:"
"We're the Battling Bastards of Bataan,
No mama, no papa, no Uncle Sam,
No aunts, no uncles, no cousins, no nieces,
No pills, no planes, no artillery pieces,
And nobody gives a d**n!"
by Frank Hewlett, 1942.
Here's the photo of the poem "The Creed of the Islands"
"We're the Battling Bastards of Bataan,
No mama, no papa, no Uncle Sam,
No aunts, no uncles, no cousins, no nieces,
No pills, no planes, no artillery pieces,
And nobody gives a d**n!"
by Frank Hewlett, 1942.
Here's the photo of the poem "The Creed of the Islands"
