Devil dogs Motorcycle Club Original Logo On vellum Matted Ready to Frame USMC

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Devil dogs Motorcycle Club  Original Logo On vellum Matted Ready to Frame  14 x 11". Mat opening 8 x 10.75. The devil Dogs were an Ann Arbor Michigan Motorcycle Club In the 1930's,40's, and 50's.  The Name May have its roots in the legend below.
Marine recruiting Web site: "...in World War I during the 1918 Château-Thierry campaign near the French village of Bouresches, Marines assaulted a line of German machine-gun nests on an old hunting preserve known as Belleau Wood. The fighting was terrible. Those Marines who weren't cut down by the enemy guns captured the nests in a grisly close-quarters battle. The shocked Germans nicknamed their foes, teufelhunden (devil dogs).""The tradition was believed to have its roots during World War I when German soldiers referred to the Marines as "devil dogs," comparing their fierce fighting ability to that of wild mountain dogs of Bavarian folklore."