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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
There was an Australian fellow in our frat house when I was at U of Iowa back in 69-70. He was doing a doctorate in pharmacy.
He loved tennis, ladies and big block Corvettes, in that order.
She also said that, if I hadn't come along, she would have never gotten married to an Australian man. In her words, "The only way that you know that an Australian man loves you is that he will come home to you and beat you up, after a long night of drinking with his mates and spending all of his paycheck at the pub. If he didn't love you, he'd just go off with some other Sheila ...".
My Great Uncle Carl was in the Navy and was stationed in Australia during WWII. He fell in love and married an Aussie Lass, and moved there after the war.
It’s been fun through the years having our Aussie Cousins come to visit us, ‘in the states.’ My parents took my Grandma (Carl’s sister) and Grandpa to Australia in the mid-70’s and Dad has been back twice, since.
It’s still on my Bucket List. :)
Looks fairly accurate.
My Dad has some interactions with Australians in the Pacific in WWII. He wasn’t negative, but only said his main memories were 1) he couldn’t understand what many of them were saying, they had heavy accents, and 2) that his ship picked up a load of Australian mutton that literally made everyone on the ship sick. He was on an aircraft carrier - he said everyone was throwing up on the flight deck
“Everything is venomous except the sheep,” I’ve heard.
My CV made a port call to Fremantle/Perth, and out of that one week visit came no less than seven marriages to Australian women, all beauties, among the 32 officers in our squadron..and I was dang near the eighth! We operated with the Royal Australian Navy, no finer fighting forces in the world, and noble allies. But Australian men treat “sheilas” worse than their animals, all to the benefit of Americans with a bit of courtesy and the promise to Australian ladies of escaping Oz for the USA. True story.
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Where was the problem? Sounds like my Marines to me.
That was an epic prank. Will probably still work.
Unless the poor doggy runs into some old fart who flashes back to his automatically stomp on huge spiders days.
I pulled some liberty in Australia back in the early 70’s. The people were wonderful.
Mutton was so bad, he couldn't eat lamb for years.
Of course, my dad encountered sheeps' eyeballs as a delicacy in the Greek Islands, so you probably aren't safe anywhere.
I can vouch for your experience.
We stopped at Perth/Freemantle for five days in ‘94.
Five marriges, 2 went AWOL for them.
2 Marines were TOLD to NOT go kangaroo boxing and ended up with massive injuries after ignoring the order.
Shattered ribcages, broken arms, legs, etc.
STUNNING women. They DO stand on the pier with their phone numbers on large billboards.
Their Burger Kings are called Hungry Jacks.
They don’t drink Fosters beer.
I loved Australia.
Fosters???? Bloody roo pi$$ mate!
In the 1950s USN, one of my Filipino shipmates said it was a guy's paradise there during WWII - all their men were overseas. The women would even pick you up on the street. One gal scared the Hell out of him though when she stopped him and asked "Where are you going to die?". He told her he wasn't going to die anywhere.
Of course, she meant "Where are you going today?" She translated, he told her where and entered paradise (pun intended).
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