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Updated: June 19, 2025
They are incalculably valuable and they are purely and originally American. A Paris correspondent just from the front says The spirit of American soldiers passing through casualty stations is admirable. One "doughboy" from Kansas, hobbling up to an American Red Cross canteen on one leg and crutches, shouted, "Here I come. I'm only hitting on three cylinders, but still able to get about."
Story has already been told of the lack of medical supplies on the two "flu"-infected ships that took the soldiers to Russia. Never will the American doughboy forget how melancholy he felt when he saw the leaded shrouds go over the side of the sister ship where the poor Italians were suffering and dying. And the same ill-luck with medical supplies seemed to follow us to North Russia. Dr.
As to general orders from American Headquarters dealing with the action of troops in the field, those were so few and of so little impressiveness that they have been forgotten. We must say candidly that the doughboy came to look upon American Headquarters in Archangel as of very trifling importance in the strange game he was up against.
"Why not even that?" demanded Sergeant Noll. "Why, look here, old fellow, we're just two plain, kid, doughboy sergeants of the line. If that fellow had wanted anything in the treasonable variety, what sort of goods could we deliver him, anyway? Nothing, much, beyond our own arms and a copy of the company's roll." "Then what on earth was the fellow up to, anyway?"
Ferry Boat Fights Ice Archangel Cosmopolitan Bartering For Eats Strange Wood Famine Entertainment At American Headquarters Doughboy Minstrelsy Reindeer Teams Russian Eskimo Bolshevik Prisoners S. B. A. L. Mutiny Major Young's Scare At Smolny Shakleton Boots British Rations For Yank Soldiers Corporal Knight Writes Humorous Sketch Of Ice-Bound Archangel.
Space can not be afforded for the numerous interesting anecdotes that are now in the mind of the writer and the doughboy reader who so many times saw the reindeer and their Russian Eskimo owners in their wilds or in Archangel or other cities and villages where they appear in their annual winter migrations.
That is a term common to 'doughboys, who, as you doubtless know, are merely uniformed pedestrians; but we of the cavalry always speak of our immediate fighting coterie as a 'troop. Likewise the 'battalion' of the inconsequent doughboy has for our behoof been supplanted by the more formidable word 'squadron, to show that we are de jure as well as de facto men of war. Sabe?"
He should have known that the American doughboy fights well for a cause, but that a British general would have a hard time convincing the Americans of the justice of a mixed cause.
The writer's one and only experience with them resulted in his taking all the road for steering his course and calling for the assistance of two brother officers and "Chi" was the strongest he had drunk, too. Of course the doughboy mastered the art of navigating in them. For downright laughableness and ludicrity the Charlie Chaplin walk has nothing on the Shakleton gliding-wabble.
The lack of transportation within this great hinterland of Archangel, as can be verified by any doughboy who marched and rassled his supplies into the interior, is an immediate reason for the comparative non-development of this region. It has not been so many years since the first railroad was run from central Russia to Archangel.
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