Word: doughboys
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have, since the outbreak of the war, listened to stories published in our newspapers telling of the superiority of one American doughboy to countless numbers of Germans. Yesterday we learned from one of the daily papers that the Americans on the Marne slaughtered one thousand enemy troops and lost but one man. All of which is cheering news, but somewhat ridiculous, and very few educated people can be expected to take much stock in such exaggerated reports...
...true Mahan style rush over the top, followed by their platoons. War is a constantly changing game and such a formation might terrorize the most terrible Touton. A little scrimmage in No Man's Land between barrages would also serve as a diversion to the worn-out doughboy...
...they are trying to plaster us with names like Sammy and Teddy. If you see any of the people who are trying to label us, please let them know that the infantry soldier of the Regular Army has always called himself the "Doughboy," and as long as there is a Regular Army he will continue to call himself that. I have no reasons why he is that, but he seems to prefer it to all others...