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I Am A Doughboy (WW2 US Army Recruit)

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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".

 

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