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By the way, did you Father serve in WW II, if so what did he thought of the leaflet? And was there an image of US troops bombing indiscriminately?
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He sure did, he snuck into the army at 17 year old (NZ required its troops to be 20 years old) but was caught just before joining his unit in North Africa so he spent three years taging through Africa as an observer before finally joining the New Zealand forces at Monte Casino.
As for the leaflet he thought it was funny which is why he kept it I assume and it is one of two things about americans that made him laugh, the other was about american troops wearing "US" badges when US in commonwealth armies was painted on broken equipment and stood for "UnServicable".
Other than that he really didnt have much to do with US troops and rarely spoke of them although oddly enough he was impressed with the Germans.