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The exploits of the 2/6 were immortalized in the WWII classic novel, "Battle Cry", by Leon Uris.
Walsh had previously had successes with films about the U.S. Marine Corps in World War I (What Price Glory?), the 1920s (The Cock-Eyed World and Sadie Thompson), and World War II (Battle Cry).
He was Oscar-nominated in 1948 for Jean Negulesco’s Johnny Belinda, and also worked on Young Man with a Horn (1950), Battle Cry (1955) and Nicholas Ray’s seminal Rebel Without a Cause in 1956.
It was adopted due to the blood curdling battle-cry of Sergeant Patrick Masterson as he tore into the French ranks, with Ensign Keogh, to capture the first French Imperial Eagle to be taken in battle – during the Battle of Barossa.
When originally published in hardcover, McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom spent 16 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, and an additional 3 months for the subsequent paperback edition.
Amid the climate of the 1965 Watts Riots, Williams used the station to call for assertive action: "In the spirit of 76, in the Spirit of Los Angeles, let our people take to the streets in fierce numbers, and in the cause of freedom and justice, let our battle cry be heard around the world. Freedom! Freedom! Freedom now, or death!"
Another Rockers Revenge track called "Battle Cry" was featured in the movie Beat Street and its soundtrack album.
The first cutscene in the game includes a slight mistranslation of the term: "Suffering to the conquered." This phrase was reused in a later game, Legacy of Kain: Defiance, again spoken by Kain when killing a regular enemy with the Soul Reaver weapon and spoken in a more menacing, sinister tone than as a battle cry, and once by Raziel at the end of his battle with Kain, this time with the proper translation of "woe to the conquered."