Let’s not forget that the Yanks hit back that the Brits were “underpaid, undersexed and under Eisenhower”.
Good one. Thanks. lol
There are a lot of anecdotes about GI's in the UK. Members of the first units noted that BBC comedy was different, that the jokes seemed to come with "a long fuse". Later on as the PX system got its act together they addressed complaints that, for example, English condoms were way too small. [True story.]
Officials on both sides really wanted the folks to get along so there was an official program to urge British households to invite U.S. servicemen over socially. In one case an upper class lady called a nearby base and asked them to send someone but "make sure it wasn't anyone Jewish". On the big day when a bunch of black soldiers showed up the lady said "Heavens, there must be some mistake!" and the unit leader said "Oh no ma'am, the Colonel didn't make no mistake."