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Doughboy
Doughboy
was an informal term for a member of the
United States Army
or
Marine Corps
, especially used to refer to members of the
American Expeditionary Forces
in
World War I
, but initially used in the
Mexican-American War
of 1846-48. A popular mass-produced sculpture of the 1920s, the
Spirit of the American Doughboy
, shows a U.S. soldier in World War I uniform.
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