Doughboy

"Doughboy" was a popular nickname for the American infantryman during World War I.^[1] Though the origins of the term are not certain,^[2] the nickname was still in use as of the early 1940s, when it was gradually replaced by "G.I." as the following generation enlisted in World War II^[3]^[4]

^ The American Heritage Desk Dictionary (5th ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2013. p. 255. ISBN 978-0-547-70813-3. OCLC 768728947.
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^ George, John B. (1948) Shots Fired In Anger, Samworth Press. pp.xi, xii, 21. Lt. John George, an Army officer writing a World War II autobiographical postwar combat memoir in May 1947, freely used the term to describe himself and his fellow U.S. Army infantrymen.

[1] The American Heritage Desk Dictionary (5th ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2013. p. 255. ISBN 978-0-547-70813-3. OCLC 768728947.

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[4] George, John B. (1948) Shots Fired In Anger, Samworth Press. pp.xi, xii, 21. Lt. John George, an Army officer writing a World War II autobiographical postwar combat memoir in May 1947, freely used the term to describe himself and his fellow U.S. Army infantrymen.

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