doughboys

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The Army-Notre Dame rivalry writes its own storylines: the pope’s boys against the Doughboys, religion and the military, the cross versus the saber.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2024

"More than 100 years have passed, but the legacy and courage of those Doughboys sailing off to war and the values they fought to defend still live in our nation today."

From Fox News • Apr. 17, 2021

The papers were full of stories of children collecting peach pits to turn into charcoal for gas masks worn by Doughboys.

From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 2020

Appearing first in the Army’s newspaper “Stars and Stripes,” the poem was published in 1919 with 83 others by American Doughboys in “Yanks; A.E.F. Verse.”

From Washington Times • Nov. 17, 2018

“Don’t you want to hear Little Orphan Annie? Or the Light Crust Doughboys? Or baseball games?”

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez