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Doughboy
American infantryman in World War I / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the nickname. For other uses, see Doughboy (disambiguation).
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. Examples include the 1942 song "Johnny Doughboy Found a Rose in Ireland", recorded by Dennis Day, Kenny Baker, and Kay Kyser, among others, the 1942 musical film Johnny Doughboy, and the character "Johnny Doughboy" in Military Comics.[3] It was gradually replaced during World War II by "G.I."[4][5]
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