PL HEL 1. If you were alive in 1917 would you have joined the US army as a "doughboy"?

2. How come so many people looked up to Sgt. York?

3. Why were the Harlem Hellfighters respected so much in Europe but not in the U. S. for a long time?

1. Yes, Army soldiers who kept the piping on their uniforms white through the application of clay. When the troops got rained on the clay on their uniforms turned into “doughy blobs,” supposedly leading to the doughboy moniker.

2. Alvin Cullum York (December 13, 1887 – September 2, 1964), also known as Sergeant York, was one of the most decorated United States Army soldiers of World War I.[1] He received the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine gun nest, gathered 35 machine guns, killing at least 25[2] enemy soldiers and capturing 132 prisoners. York's Medal of Honor action occurred during the United States-led portion of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in France, which was intended to breach the Hindenburg line and force the Germans to surrender. He earned decorations from several allied countries during WWI, including France, Italy and Montenegro.

3. German soldiers coined the nickname "Harlem Hellfighters," which became popular in the American press after newspaper accounts of Sgt. Henry Johnson using a bolo knife to fend off German soldiers. The Hellfighters wore steel Adrian helmets issued by the French army.

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explanation:

answer: 25.8 years old or 25 years old