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...Doughboy Colonel. James Van Fleet has little knack for the soldier-statesmanship of an Eisenhower or a MacArthur. He is first and foremost a combat soldier who has thoroughly learned his trade. In World War II, under the incomparable George Patton, he learned the value of speed, surprise, audacity. In his imposing collection of medals the one he likes best is the Combat Infantryman's Badge...
Once Fix turned to the group, referring to a kind of compressed cereal, said, "Gentlemen, you have six doughboys. You may do with them what you wish." That day each person had one doughboy and a cup of tea for food...
...Rogers was a World War I doughboy on furlough when he bumped into Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in a French provincial hotel. Miss Toklas ("Pussy," Miss Stein called her) was wearing "a sort of uniform," consisting of a cloak and a skirt with vast baggy pockets; she moved at a springy canter. Miss Stein ("Lovey," Miss Toklas called her) also wore a sort of uniform, modeled apparently on the Greek Evzones but including sandals; she walked like a determined elephant. Both ladies wore hats like helmets. They named young Rogers "Kiddy...
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...