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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."
Ordnance crest "WHAT'S IN A NAME" - military education about SNL. This is a historic (index) list of United States Army weapons and materiel, by their Standard Nomenclature List (SNL) group and individual designations — an alpha-numeric nomenclature system used in the United States Army Ordnance Corps Supply Catalogues used from about 1930 to about 1958.
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 ...
Dogface Soldiers: The Story of B Company, 15th Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division by Daniel R. Champagne; The Dragon Chronicle: History of the 15th Infantry from the Civil War to the Present by G. Lee Cotter; Cold Ground's Been My Bed: A Korean War Memoir by Dan Wolfe; Ebb and Flow November 1950 – July 1951 by Billy C. Mossman
Then he moved to Cambria in San Luis Obispo County (the California coast near Hearst Castle) where he opened a retail shop, called like his mail-order business, The Soldier Factory. It was there that Charles Kuralt and his CBS On The Road crew came in August 1977 to film a segment for the CBS Evening News .
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]
Despite the inroads of plastic toy soldiers, Barclay kept manufacturing theirs in metal. Following the war, Barclay changed the helmets on their soldiers to the M1 Helmet. In about 1951 Barclay conserved metal by eliminating bases on their soldiers, which collectors nicknamed podfoot soldiers because each foot appeared as a flattened rounded ...
Standard catalog of U.S. Military Vehicles. Krause. ISBN 0-87349-508-X. Archived from the original on 15 January 2018; Standard Military Vehicle Data Sheets. Ordnance Tank Automotive Cmd. 1959. Archived from the original on 10 December 2014; TM 9-500 Data Sheets for Ordnance Type Material (PDF).