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[blackhawks]

Truman should have known better. He was an army artilleryman in France in WWI

He probably heard the term Devil Dogs, maybe he even knew it was apocryphally attributed to the Germans...no evidence to support that.

And maybe that's where his views of USMC skill at propaganda came from.

https://www.stripes.com/blogs-archive/the-rumor-doctor/the-rumor-doctor-1.104348/did-marines-not-german-soldiers-coin-the-phrase-devil-dogs-1.130602#