A partially similar Korean War text appears in Robert Leckie's book "The March to Glory," concerning U.S. Marines at the Reservoir in the winter of 1950-51.

The lines about MacArthur are left over from the Tulagi version of the song, evidently composed in the Pacific in 1942. Oscar Brand recorded his own version (with only a few changes) on the 1960 LP "Tell It to the Marines."