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The Spirit of the American Doughboy is a pressed copper sculpture by E. M. Viquesney, designed to honor the veterans and casualties of World War I. Mass-produced during the 1920s and 1930s for communities throughout the United States, the statue's design was the most popular of its kind, spawning a wave of collectible miniatures and related ...
Spirit of the American Doughboy, Owen County Courthouse, Spencer, Indiana. Ernest Moore Viquesney (August 5, 1876 – October 4, 1946) was an American sculptor best known for his popular World War I monument Spirit of the American Doughboy.
American Doughboy Bringing Home Victory, also known as Armistice [1] and Spirit of the American Doughboy, [1] is an outdoor 1932 bronze sculpture and war memorial by Alonzo Victor Lewis. The statue is 12.0 feet (3.7 m) tall and weighs 4,600 pounds (2,100 kg). [2]
English: "Spirit of the American Doughboy" Statue This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America . Its reference number is 100002057 .
Before George Masko parachuted behind enemy lines in Normandy on D-Day, he emptied his pouch of rations, water and a gas mask and filled it with vials of morphine. A medic in the Army's 82nd ...
Dedicated on June 10, 1923, the centerpiece of the monument is the pressed copper sculpture, Spirit of the American Doughboy, by E. M. Viquesney. One of the first settlers, John Jacob Mickley (1697–1769), started farming here in 1745. [11] In 1755, Jacob Kohler established a gristmill, located along Coplay Creek just south of the church. [5]
"Doughboy" was a popular nickname for the American infantryman during World War I. [1] Though the origins of the term are not certain, [ 2 ] the nickname was still in use as of the early 1940s, when it was gradually replaced by " G.I. " as the following generation enlisted in World War II [ 3 ] [ 4 ]
The Pillsbury Doughboy has a name -- and you've probably never even heard it before. The cheerful mascot made his debut in a television commercial that aired on November 7, 1965.