Word: doughboys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Normandy, a group of U.S. soldiers, dog-tired after a day of marching, fighting, marching again, flopped down in a roadside ditch for a cat nap, landed on six Nazi soldiers already asleep. Grumbled one doughboy, after the Nazis were captured: "Damn it, a G.I.'s work is never done...
King George VI lunched at Fifth Army advance headquarters as a guest of Lieut. General Mark Clark, along with Manhattan's Archbishop Spellman (see RELIGION) and the Allied commander in Italy, General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander. Some 300 yards from the table, a U.S. doughboy stepped on a brace of German mines, which promptly exploded, killing the soldier. At His Majesty's table no one was hurt...
...grenade struck the head of the driver, went on to hit the officer beside him between the eyes, killing both men. The cycle skidded into a ditch, catapulting the third German headfirst to his death against a stone wall. The doughboy retrieved his grenade from a tree trunk and rammed it back on the rifle launcher; it was still good...
...TIME, unlike most civilian publications, knows that there's a war on, and tells about it. Your story "Credit for the Doughboy" [TIME, April 10] stirred the ex-infantryman in me. . . . When the war is finally won, there will be no doubt in the civilian mind that the dirtiest, toughest, most grueling part of the job was done by the infantry and artillery and other earthbound forces. TIME, in its straightforward accounts of the fight, has taught this to many, including the pilot and naval officer of your article...
...another letter, this time in answer to the Hempstead (L.I.) Newsday, which had criticized him for denying soldiers free golf privileges at Bethpage State Park. Excerpt: "Experience has shown that most of the servicemen who play golf are officers, who can afford a reasonable fee, and that the average . . . doughboy regards golf as a sport of toffs* and gentlemen and doesn't know a divot from an Attic tomb inscription...