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Besides the already popular term "Yanks," US infantry soldiers in World War I were known as doughboys (the source of the nickname is not definitively established)
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The correct answer is Doughboys
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Besides the already popular term "Yanks," US infantry soldiers in World War I were known as doughboys (the source of the nickname is not definitively established)
Dough boys
Besides the already popular term "Yanks," US infantry soldiers in World War I were known as doughboys (the source of the nickname is not definitively established)
US soldiers referred to Germans as "Krauts" during World War II.
See the Related Link for "Doughboy Center" to the right for some possible explanations for the origin of this nickname.Doughboysif you mean English- we were called tommies :) and Americans dough boys .. lol im not sure why have a look at this Why were WW1 soldiers called dough boysdoughboysThe US soldiers were nicknamed "Doughboys" during WW1 because the buttons on their overcoats reminded the British men of little clumps of dough.
the nickname given to the US Marines is Jarhead
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American soldiers were also known as doughboys