What were the Doughboys in World War 1?

Answer 1

that where the American troops that can to Europe in 1917.
The mane boughboys had his origin ,according the most logical explication , in the Mexican - American war of 1846 - 47. From that period did origin some recorded us of the word doughboy that was used for the infantry.
A doughboy is a baker's aid who was always covered in flour .
The infantry was called that way because they where also so dusted from there marches in that Mexican war. Especially the cavalry seated high on there horse didn't had that effect ( they staid proper on there mount ) and so it became that they where called doughboys.
That name became to stick to them so in the 1917 that name became general use for all the soldiers and not only for the infantry .
But with the return of the last soldiers the name faded away and the therm GI became in the place around the 1930's

Answer 2

The Spirit of the American Doughboy is a pressed copper sculpture by Ernest Moore Viquesney, designed to honor the veterans and casualties of World War I.
The original "Doughboy" statue was completed in 1921 while Viquesney was living in Americus, Georgia and is located in Nashville, Georgia.

The origin of the term is unclear.
The most commonly held explanation is that it came into use in the Civil War in reference to the dumpling-shaped buttons on the Union soldiers' jackets.

"Doughboy" became most popular during World War I, the American Expeditionary Force was led by General John J. Pershing.

The term fell into disuse and was replaced by the appellation G.I. in World War II.

Answer 3

The US solidiers in WWI were called doughboys because of the large buttons on their uniforms resembled large pieces of dough.

Answer 4

This was the nickname given to US soldiers who came over there to fight in 1917-1918.

Answer 5

a group of french pastry chefs, mostly fat fluffy white guys led by general antoine pillsbury...when they weren't shooting germans the pillsbury doughboys were baking croisant and butterflake biscuits for the troops...champions of the battle for alsace-lorraine, they won with flying crullers, thus helping initiate the world into a new era of weaponry

Answer 6

It was just a term used for the infantry men. No one really knows with certainty where the term came from.

Answer 7

That was the nickname given to U.S. Soldiers.