23119 - U.S Infantry Doughboy Resting on Rifle, 1918 First Legion - US Airborne Marine regiments were small units

Marine regiments were small units of about eight hundred to a thousand men

known as “Doughnut Lassies”

As a Wing Leader Johnson was entitled to personal code letters and his aircraft were always marked JE-J

Although only speculation

easy to clean

23119 - U.S Infantry Doughboy Resting on Rifle, 1918 First Legion - US Airborne Marine regiments were small unitsThough there are many origin stories for the World War One soldiers nickname of Doughboy there is one with strong historic support. Likely, the name attached early to the Americans from U. S. military operations on the Mexican border in 1916 when Pershings Expeditionary Force traveled south of the border to fight rebel Pancho Villa. Observers noticed U. S. infantry forces were constantly covered with chalky dust from marching through the dry terrain