Word: doughboys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the pictures, like Kei Sato's fierce tangle of men and bayonets entitled Deadly Struggle in the Jungle, were mere studio nightmares. Sato had pictured the U.S. enemy in World War I uniforms, with gas masks and doughboy helmets. He based his ideas of U.S. equipment on obsolete materiel the Japs captured in the Philippines...
...This interpretation may be farfetched, but nobody who has observed the effect of the well-fed, well-equipped, opulent doughboy on the populations of France, Italy, the Near East, wherever he has appeared, can doubt that he has sowed in his wake the fertile seeds of envy and rebellion...
President had gone to Missouri for his man. All sections of the country approved. "The doughboy's general'' seemed as eminently fitted for the job as General Marshall was for his. Cheered the New York Times: "A stroke of inspiration...
...Nazi cinemactress Leni Riefenstahl, when U.S. troops ejected her from Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop's hill villa at Kitzbuhel, Austria: "Some of my best friends were Jews." With tears in her great brown eyes she complained of the disrespect of an unnamed Boston Irish doughboy. "Baby," he had said, "I've been going to the movies a long time and I never heard...
...dusk outside, German Haus-frauen listened in bewilderment to the discordant doughboy opera. The irreverent G.I.s, having captured the opera house and set up a command post there, had found the property room intact. Tired as they were, the temptation to dress up and put on a show was too much for them. The performance lasted two hours...