doughboys

I charged up San Juan Hill with the Rough Riders and joined the doughboys over there.

Seventeen months later, after millions of American doughboys had taken up arms in Europe and 117,000 were killed, the Germans surrendered.

When l am not worrying over our valiant doughboys, I worry over what's happening here at home.

In five scenes, the sculpture will depict the journey of the American “doughboys” from home, through the horror of the 1914-1918 war — which the United States entered in 1917 — and back.

During World War I, Salvation Army ministers — “officers,” in the group’s parlance — served doughnuts to the troops, gaining respect from the soldiers who came to be known as “doughboys.”