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When the first American servicemen arrived in England in March 1942, the indigenous population greeted their presence with mixed feelings. A certain level of resentment was harbored by the English and expressed by many in the in the well-worn phase of the time "overpaid, oversexed, and over here." But without the American presence in Britain and its huge military and industrial muscle, the war with Germany would probably have been lost. Using a combination of contemporary eyewitness and documentary sources plus latter-day interviews, linked together by engaging narrative, Helen Milligate examines how the "Yanks" got on with the locals, how they fit in (or didn’t), the impact on the social structure of England in the 1940s, the problems they brought with them, and their impressions of England. She concludes with the journey home once the war in Europe had ended, describing what the Yanks left behind them and the wives and sweethearts they took "stateside."
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Helen D. Millgate is the editor of Mr. Brown’s War.
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