Posted on 02/05/2017 12:00:52 PM PST by naturalman1975
Australian men were described by the US military during World War II as incoherent, beer-drinking tough guys who would gamble on raindrops falling on a window.
In 1942, the US Army handed a 54-page booklet to its soldiers who were sent to Australia during the war to help them deal with culture shock.
Titled 'Instructions for American Servicemen in Australia', the handbook's overriding theme was that the two countries shared a robust military and cultural alliance.
But 75 years later, it gives a compelling insight into America's perception of Australians and reveals what the US Army told its men about Australian soldiers.
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Hah!!
When I went down under, the only Koalas they had slept 20 hrs a day and ate the other 4. If anything, they'd stare you to death.
I liked the Castlemaine XXXX when I spent some time in Brisbane in 1972. Also had a lot of fun a few times on Kings Cross in Sydney.
Ate the other four hours, or the other four Koalas? :-)
Is that the animal that eats shoots and leaves?
Eucalyptus leaves.
S’truth!
I went to Sydney on R&R from Vietnam in 1968. Volunteers operated a welcome center that arranged for me to have dinner at the home of a retired auto racer named Lou Kingsley. Lou and his wife were gracious people and I thoroughly enjoyed their company. He picked me up at the train station in his modified Ford Falcon (289 V8 with Weber carbs, headers, etc..) and still drove quite briskly at the age of 78. I left with high regards for the Aussies!
Jack-In-The Box.
I don’t know what it is about Aussie women and agreeing to marry American men on short notice.
In 1972, I was in Brisbane for 9 days, met a young blond Aussie girl and 12 days later when I was in Hong Kong I sent her a telegram asking if she would marry me.
In May we will have been married for 43 years. I think she thought I had a lot of money back then but when she got to Minnesota and we lived in a town of 300 she began to put two and two together.
Wonderful people most Aussies. In 1999, I spent a year in Sydney putting together a book for the Olympics in 2000. I had to hire people and I soon learned not to expect them back when they went out for lunch on a Friday.
It looks like it was drawn by the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not cartoonist.
When the CG I was on sailed from Perth, we had 27 men miss movement. Took up to 5 months to get them all back.
“Some of the sheep”
There are at least deadly spiders; look at Queensland.
Wow. We had a group of sailors who went UA & missed movement, but I don’t think it as many as you had. Twenty-seven from a CG complement is serious stuff. A handful from a CV was manageable.
It was tough for a while, for a couple of weeks, until our next port call in Kenya, we were port and starboard in one fire room and one engine room.
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