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The term "dogface" to describe an American soldier appeared in print at least as early as 1935. [5] [6] Contemporaneous newspapers accounted for the nickname by explaining that soldiers "wear dog-tags, sleep in pup tents, and are always growling about something" and "the army is a dog's life...and when they want us, they whistle for us."
A cartoon dogface, as portrayed in the Merrie Melodies series (Gold Rush Daze in 1939), in which dogfaces were common generic characters in the 1930s. Dogfaces or ‘’’Dognoses’’’ is the term used by fans to designate the anthropomorphic characters and extras in comic books , comic strips , and animated cartoons . [ 1 ]
Dogface, by Leash Law; DogFace, by Barbara O'Brien; Dogface may also refer to Zerene, a genus of butterflies commonly known as the Dogfaces; Zerene cesonia, a butterfly in this genus commonly known as the Dogface or Southern Dogface; Sophie Reade, who temporarily had her name changed to Dogface to become a housemate on Big Brother 2009 (UK)
Dogface – term referring to soldiers of the 3rd ID. Heavy Metal: a Tank Company's Battle to Baghdad – 2005 book co-written by former 3rd ID company commander. Over There – 2005 fictional television series about a 3rd ID unit. To Hell and Back – 1955 film based on Audie Murphy's 1949 autobiographical novel.
Reinforcing his status as the dogface G.I.'s best friend, Pyle wrote a column from Italy in 1944 proposing that soldiers in combat should get "fight pay," just as airmen received "flight pay". In May 1944 the U.S. Congress passed a law that became known as the Ernie Pyle bill. It authorized 50 percent extra pay for combat service. [4]
Fedor Adrianovich Jeftichew (Russian: Фёдор Адрианович Евтищев, Fyodor Yevtishchev, 1868 – January 31, 1904), better known as Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy (later Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Man), was a famous Russian sideshow performer who toured Europe with his father, the ‘Wild Man from the Kostroma Forest’, in 1873 [1] and was brought to the United States of America in 1884 ...
Dogface Soldier: The Life of General Lucian K. Truscott, Jr. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-8262-7212-6. Jeffers, Harry Paul (2008). Command of Honor: General Lucian Truscott's Path to Victory in World War II. Penguin. ISBN 9781440630668. Phibbs, Brendan (1987). The Other Side of Time: A Combat Surgeon in World War II. Little, Brown ...
Zerene eurydice, the California dogface butterfly, belongs to the family Pieridae and is a sister genus to Colias. [2] The Zerene eurydice and the Colias both share the "characteristic of having yellow-orange and black wing coordination ."