The Doughboys: America and the First World War

More than three million American men, many of them volunteers, joined the AEF in the first twenty months of US involvement in the First World War.



Of these, over 50,000 were killed on European soil. These were the Doughboys, the young men recruited from the cities and farms of the United States, who travelled across the Atlantic to aid the allies in the trenches and on the battlefields. Without their courage and determination, the outcome of the war would have been very different.



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