Word: doughboys
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...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...
...Even when referred to with admiration, the infantry are almost always called foul names. The British designation for the doughboy: P.B.I. (poor bloody infantry). *Flying pay in the Air Forces is given for flying, not for combat, and is a hangover from peacetime, when it was given for the extra hazards involved...
...business in Oregon to become a Regular Army Air Corpsman and specialize in photo work. As a captain in 1942 he went to Australia, commanded the first P-38 squadron to be used in his kind of work. The P-38s then had more bugs in them than a doughboy's blanket. The high, hot flying of recon work burned them up! Some of Pop's Lightnings exploded in midair...