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...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...
...John Harvard has given way to Johnny Doughboy for the duration with the virtual transformation of the Harvard Graduate Schools into vital military centers for training officers and conducting research," the News reported. It further described the acute overcrowding caused by the influx of 3,000 Army and Navy officers taking training here...
...only got to win the war and everything will be hunky-dory? [Many people think this is what Churchill Pere thinks, but Churchill Pere knows he is too old to win both the war and the peace.] You and I are the English-speaking peoples, and the doughboy who came to the dance last night. It will be YOUR responsibility and MINE and HIS to see that the world becomes a fairer . . . place. . . . It won't be enough to go back [home after the war] and let the world go hang...