Extra Verses
Various people over the years wrote unofficial or semi-unofficial extra verses to commemorate later battles and actions, for example, this verse commemorating the occupation of Iceland during World War II:
- Again in 1941, we sailed a north'ard course
- and found beneath the midnight sun, the Viking and the Norse.
- The Iceland girls were slim and fair, and fair the Iceland scenes,
- and the Army found in landing there, the United States Marines.
As the anticipated invasion of Japan neared, this portion of another verse was on a sign the Marines erected on Bougainville:
- "So when we reach the 'Isle of Japan'
- with our caps at a jaunty tilt,
- we'll enter the city of Tokyo
- on the roads the Seabees built."
Read more about this topic: Marines' Hymn
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