AUSTRIA: G.I. Metamorphosis

"The G.I. has, it good in Austria." So says the G.I. in Austria, and he means by comparison with the lot of U.S. soldiers stationed elsewhere in postwar Europe. Soldiers would grouse even if detailed to the Garden of Eden and last week, as usual, the G.I.s in Austria were grousing at having to attend a series of high-minded but boring Army lectures. But in their time off, the far from sad young men went on having a good time.

Mozart & Chamois. Most of the 15,000 U.S. occupation troops in Austria were...

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