Plural of dogface; multiple soldiers, especially infantry soldiers, or a group of servicemen.
Simple English pluralization of 'dogface' by adding '-s'. The term proliferated during military service and remains associated with World War II-era vocabulary.
WWII memoirs frequently use 'dogfaces' to describe the ordinary infantry who did the ground fighting—it was actually a term soldiers used about themselves with a mixture of pride and self-deprecating humor.
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