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This booklet
was distributed to American Army recruits during WW2 by the Infantry
Recruit Training Centre (IRTC).
It was intended that they send it home
to parents or wives so that accurate basic information was made
available.
This section possible
because of input from Herbert H "Sarge" Booker II of
California.
Doughboy was the slang term
for an American soldier, originally (from WWI); dough as in soft, puffy,
unbaked, not yet put to the fire but later in WWII to refer to the
amount of money the Yanks had. The complaint was that they were
"over-paid, over-sexed and over here".