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Updated: June 10, 2025
Nor was the crossing anything like a vacation yachting cruise for the doughboys transported, packed as they were like sardines two and three decks below the waterline, brought up in shifts to catch a brief taste of fresh air, assailed at once by homesickness, seasickness, and fears of drowning like rats in a trap.
"Ever since Cornelius Hickey put up 'Hickey's Hut, the first Salvation Army hut in France, they have been working at a loss. I saw an American officer give a Salvation Army chaplain 500 francs out of his pay at a certain small town in France recently. "The work done in 'Hickey's Hut' did much to endear the Salvation folks to the doughboys.
Here and there in the Economia embarkation camp those days and nightless nights in early June many a secret conclave of doughboys was held to devise ways and means of getting their Russian mascots aboard ship. Of these boys and youths they had become fond. They wanted to see them in "civvies" in America and the mascots were anxiously waiting the outcome at the gangplank.
It was toward evening, and the tired doughboys were wondering what the night would hold for them, when Jimmy remarked: "I'm going to see if I can find Sergeant Maxwell." "What's the matter with him?" asked Roger. "Nothing, I hope. But I gave him those five thousand francs to keep for me you know, the reward money our money," explained Jimmy, for it was that, as you shall see.
All the same, one of these days I mean to get a transfer. My legs are too long for the doughboys anyhow. Meantime, with all meekness I'll bear my burden I deserve it; but you'll believe me when I say it isn't the punishment, the humiliation this has cost me that so weighs upon me now; it is the thought of your loss and your prostration.
The only event of note was the midnight game of baseball between the medics and doughboys. The medics could not hit the pills as hard as the doughboys. They left Onega June 5th, by steamboat for Economia Island and left Russia June 15th.
You'll get over the ground quicker and safer than you would on a horse," remarked the cadet corporal. "Oh, well, sir, I'm going into the doughboys, anyway," grinned Dodge. "It will be a good many years before I can get up far enough in the line to be called upon to ride a horse." The "doughboys" are the United States Infantry.
A few minutes later to the immense disgust of the doughboys, a company of English Tommies who by all rules of right and reason should have been the ones to clean up the mutinous mess into which the British officers had gotten the S. B. A. L.'s, now hove into sight, coming up the recently bullet-whistling but now deadly quiet street, with rifles slung on their shoulders, crawling along slowly at sixty to the minute pace instead of a riot-call double time, and singing their insulting version of "Over There the Yanks are Running, Running, everywhere, etc."
"B" And "D" Busy With Attacking Bolos "L" Vigilantly Holding Front Near Kodish Quiet On Other Fronts Engineers Building Blockhouses With Willing Assistance Of Doughboys How Was Our Little War Affected "We're Here Because We're Here" No Share In Victory Shouting "F" On Lines Of Communication.
Nora Wingate was already conferring with the "fiddler." Then, as the tables were moved to one side, Nora launched into a lively song that she had sung to the doughboys in France, the fiddler accompanying her on his violin. There were rough spots in the fiddling, but these Nora submerged in the great volume of her fine contralto voice.
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