“Doughboys” became the nickname for the troops of General John Pershing's American Expeditionary Forces, who traversed the Atlantic to join war-weary Allied armies fighting on the Western Front in World War I.
The Doughboys refer to the American forces in France during World War I. General John J. Pershing was their leader.
They were called the doughboys.
Doughboys. Yanks.
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“Doughboys” became the nickname for the troops of General John Pershing's American Expeditionary Forces, who traversed the Atlantic to join war-weary Allied armies fighting on the Western Front in World War I.
The American troups were called doughboys in World War I.
doughboys
The Doughboys refer to the American forces in France during World War I. General John J. Pershing was their leader.
They were called the doughboys.
The doughboys were a group of allied forces during World War I. They committed many great acts of valor for the American Force during the war.
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Doughboys, there are only 3 remaining doughboys left. One of which is a 104-year odl from bayonne, NJ
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)
During World War I, as in so many other wars, soldiers from both sides were given nicknames of all sorts. The American soldiers who went 'over there' to fight were no exception, receiving nicknames such as 'doughboys' and 'Yanks,' among many others.
They are called doughboys because they carried bread and smelled like the dough all the time. So this is why there called doughboys.