War Branding
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- TheBlueOne
The Movie thread got me thinking of all those old afternoon movies I used to watch as a kid in the 70's (insert old jokes here). My favorites were always "War week" and "Monster week" with Godzille, etc. But a few war movies stood out lik e"The Bridge at River Kwai", "Kelly's Heroes" and what used to be my favorite, "The Devil's Brigade"
But just out of curiosity I bounced over to Wikipedia to find out if there was any historical accuracy to the "Devil's Brigade" flick and indeed there is. It was really the first ever special forces unit during WW2, and I really got a kick out of this:
"It was at Anzio that the Germans dubbed the 1st Special Service Force the "Devil's Brigade." The diary of a dead German soldier contained a passage that said, "The black devils (Die schwarzen Teufel) are all around us every time we come into the line."... It was also at Anzio that the 1st SSF used their trademark stickers; during night patrols soldiers would carry stickers depicting the unit patch and a slogan written in German: "Das dicke Ende kommt noch," said to translate to "The Worst is yet to Come", placing these stickers on German corpses and fortifications".
Awesome - they carried stickers. Fucking stickers that they stuck all over the battlefield.
- ********0
see Maskelyne in north africa
- mrdobolina0
wow, cool stuff.
- Llyod0
- Thus began American Marketing...TheBlueOne
- oddly enough it was a viral campaignLlyod
- ********0
- Yeah, but was it a STICKER?TheBlueOne
- kraut mindgames were not too sophisticatedLlyod
- stamps: http://www.psywar.or…********
- I would have written that differentlyflashbender
- I would of used a different typeface altogether..TheBlueOne
- gabe0
you should check out hamburger hill, if you haven't seen it already. great flick about one of the nastiest battles in vietnam