During World War One U.S. Marines at Belleau Wood are recorded to have used a now forgotten battle-cry, said to have been learned at their training camps in Quantico, Virginia and Parris Island, South Carolina. This cry is written as "eee-yah-yip!" another is "eee-ya-yip!". This is very simular to many discriptions of versions of the Rebel Yell. The Marines had started fighting the Germans in text book formation style fighting of the period and paid for it in heavy losses but they learned fast. At Belleau Wood they resorted to their training at Parris Island and Quantico and fought "Indian Style" in small groups, using cover, close-in, bayonets and always advancing with a yell "eee-ya-yip!". The Germans, not used to this, were, many times, pushed out of their defensive positions, with heavy losses and finally out of Belleau Wood altogether.

From Chateau Thierry & Belleau Wood 1918, by David Bonk.

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