Why america army be nicknamed be”doughboy ” during WW1 ?
THE ORIGINS OF DOUGHBOY An Interim Report By Website Editor Michael E. Hanlon Minor Revisions, 16 June 2003 A. The Coinage of Doughboy For us today, and maybe for all Americans who will follow, the Doughboys were the men America sent to France in the Great War, who licked Kaiser Bill and fought to make the world safe for Democracy. The expression doughboy, though, was in wide circulation a century before the First World War in both Britain and America, albeit with some very different meanings. Horatio Nelson’s sailors and Wellington’s soldiers in Spain were both familiar with fried flour dumplings called doughboys, the predecessor of the modern doughnut that both we and the Doughboys of World War I came to love. Because of the occasional contact of the two nation’s armed force and transatlantic migration, it seems likely that this usage was known to the members of the U.S. Army by the early 19th century. Nelson and Wellington Their Men Knew About Doughboys Independently, in the former
