Word: doughboys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Curtain. Cabled TIME Correspondent Jack Belden: "For the soldiers who had fought so bitterly a few days previously in the barren mountains to the west, the finale in Sicily seemed an anticlimax. In Messina the doughboy was lost; there was no one to fight. Private Hays Cathey stood in the street, hardly knowing what to do. 'That's all there is, there ain't no more,' he commented. Then, he sat on a debris-littered curbstone, opened a tin of cheese and disregarded everything...
...Promenading along the main stem was enhanced this week by the amusing sight of two French gals fighting over a doughboy. . . . They pulled hair, punched each other . . . used their pocketbooks as blackjacks. . . . The doughboy grabbed a spectator and gleefully said: 'Gee! Those girls are fighting over...
...against our colored allies throughout the world. The War Department did not believe such information was necessary since "the colored soldier had won the respect of his white comrades." Meanwhile, minute data has been issued to American soldiers on how to act towards the English, with whom the doughboy has more in common than with those of different background and racial stock...
Other infantrymen have noted the strange behavior of Ousseltia Valley dogs. Captain Maynard Files reported that a white dog approached his hidden mountain observation post, pointed. A doughboy in a forward foxhole told of groups of three and four dogs roaming the valley in packs. Another soldier said that the dogs seemed to emerge from the same spot as if sent out by a trainer. The southern defeat (see below) postponed a real investigation of the Ousseltia dogs, but American soldiers know that the U.S. Army is also training dogs...
...doughboys themselves forced the change. They wanted more news from home, and said so. Tired of trying to make something out of the dry, news-lean English papers, they wanted their news served up American style. Typical doughboy beef: "How can I tell the World Series scores when the London Times tells of a run scored in penultimate frames...