"Doughboy" was a popular nickname for the American infantryman during World War I. Though the origins of the term are not certain, the nickname was still in use as of the early 1940s, when it was gradually replaced by "G.I." as the following generation enlisted in World War II. == Background == === Philology === The origins of the term are unclear. The word was in wide circulation a century earlier in both Britain and America, albeit with different meanings.
"Doughboy" was a popular nickname for the American infantryman during World War I. Though the origins of the term are not certain, the nickname was still in use as of the early 1940s, when it was gradually replaced by "G.I." as the following generation enlisted in World War II. == Background == === Philology === The origins of the term are unclear. The word was in wide circulation a century earlier in both Britain and America, albeit with different meanings.
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