Allies
There’s a new Twitter account (since the Pearl Harbor anniversary), @rosieswwii, which is going through WWII through the experiences of a recently married woman living in Seattle in 1941 (now 1942). There are a couple of these but this one is the most fictionalized. Or I think it is. I have no idea if this is actually taken from someone’s diaries or whatever but I doubt it.
Anyway, yesterday, on a walk along Alki beach to pass New Year’s Day and pass the time now that her husband has enlisted (you see what I mean?), she posted these 7 wartime propaganda posters of our Allies, which she’s posted all at once on the corresponding blog (she also has a Facebook page (honestly, these historical accounts are so fun)). Those pictured: Englishman, Ethiopian, Dutch Sailor, Chinese, Russian (hah!), Australian (obligatory hat: check), and Canadian (tam o’shanter ftw!).
I thought it was funny.
January 3rd, 2012 at 4:53 am
Even in the case of the Australian (and English, for a different reason) these were necessary.
Stop me if you’ve heard me relate this anecdote (hah!, you can’t!) of my Dad’s: He travelled to his posting in England via the US west coast. While waiting in California to catch the overland train Dad and a few of his mates got chatting to a group of local girls. When they started to board the train Dad overheard one of the girls ask her friend where those boys were from. “Australia? They speak good English, don’t they!”
January 3rd, 2012 at 9:42 am
My maternal Grandmother on hearing one of my fraternal Uncles was roumored to be in New Zealand, “I thought Jim was somewhere in the Pacific?”
Not only was he in New Zealand, some of his last vivid memories were of single-handedly winning the great-big-battle-of-Queen Street.