Army & Navy - Letter from a Cousin

In a roundabout way last week a Briton showed what Britons have long thought of U.S. soldiers but have never said out loud. From the Normandy front the London Daily Mail's Correspondent John Hall reported on the G.I. Joes who had been quartered in England. Hall wrote:

"No doubt you are wondering how they are faring. . . . Back there in Britain life seemed so generous to them—clothes, food, equipment and money, particularly money. . . . [You] wondered how these American cousins of ours with their neatly creased clothes and their fondness for what seemed to us to...

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