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Description: | This postcard was one of a series issued by the U.S. army during the Second World War. The photo shows an American serviceman eating a doughnut supplied by a Red Cross Clubmobile canteen. Fifty-five of these Clubmobiles were converted from Green Line coaches supplied by London Transport to serve the U.S. forces.
The text 'Doughboy's Delight' refers both to the doughnut being enjoyed by the man in this photo, but also plays on the colloquial term 'doughboy', used in the First World War for an American infantryman. The usage is thought to stem from the large round buttons on uniforms of the 1860s, said to resemble doughboys (the pieces of bread dough that were rolled thin and deep-fat fried).
Copies of this postcard were produced for the serviceman working in Britain to send home to their families. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | US Army Centre of Military History, Fort McNair, Washington DC 20319 | Subjects: | London at War | Temporal: | 1941 - 1945 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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