And the Clocks are Ticking. Melt Down the Church Bells! Special to The Great War Project (23 February) American soldiers are now in the war! For the first time, ten months after the United States declared war on Imperial Germany, “United States troops are taking offensive action on the Western Front,” reports historian Martin Gilbert.…
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WHENCE THE NAME DOUGHBOY?
by Mike Shuster
No One Knows for Sure, But American Servicemen Soon Carry the Moniker Proudly Special to The Great War Project (6 August) More and more American troops, known as Doughboys, are arriving in France. One question on many minds, how did the American troops come to be known by the nickname Doughboy? “It is far from…