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To the Shores of Tripoli is a 1942 American Technicolor film directed by H. Bruce Humberstone and starring John Payne, Maureen O'Hara and Randolph Scott. The film was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. Its cinematography was nominated for an Academy Award in 1943.
To the Shores of Tripoli: Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone. With John Payne, Maureen O'Hara, Randolph Scott, Nancy Kelly. Life at the Marine Training Base in San Diego on the eve of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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- Drama, Romance, War
- H. Bruce Humberstone
- 1942-07-29
The line "To the shores of Tripoli " refers to the First Barbary War, and specifically the Battle of Derna in 1805. [2] [3] After Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon and his Marines hoisted the American flag over the Old World for the first time, the phrase was added to the flag of the United States Marine Corps.
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Jun 14, 2013 · This famous line from the Marine Corps Hymn has its origin in the Barbary War of the early 19 th century. In the late 1700s and early 1800s, the kingdoms of North Africa, called Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli—today, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, respectively—conducted piracy in the Mediterranean Sea against American and European shipping.
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