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by Akimbo on February 23rd, 2005

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Where does the term Doughboy come from?

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  • by PaulyD on July 11th, 2006

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    Actually, the term comes from the US soldiers that served in France in 1917-1918 during WW1, although the reasons are the same.

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  • by FelixP on May 3rd, 2005

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    Doughboy is the term that refers to the American soldiers when they entered WW II in 1945. When the others had already fought for five years, the Americans came with clean white faces. So they were called doughboys.

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