They got below 100, the Poms nicked a few, and Blitz are vanilla panic merchants.
Take it to the Poms losing thread
Whereās that?
Just over there ā>
He only returned after our āchocolate soldiersā marched through the Americans who refused to advance, took out entrenched Japanese positions with meticulously planned enfilading fields of crossfire and literally drove them back in to the sea.
All while this fat ā ā ā ā sat in a luxury hotel suite in Brisbane and his over-rated and under-couraged forces drank the town dry and filled the joint with mystery babies.
I hope the rusty pipe is wrapped in barbed wire.
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Rusty barbed wire as well?
2 more days and this footballing nightmare year of 2025, will be history!
Supervising the Battle of Brisbane, where Australian and US forces exchanged fire at the railway station. Allegedly from the Aussies being heartily sick of the Yanksā behaviour, highlighted by GI Eddie Leonski murdering 3 Melbourne women. He did get hanged for it.
One of the women was a secretary at the Chemistry department at Melbourne Uni, where my old man was completing his degree. Came in one morning, whereās Miss such-and-such, oh, she got murdered last night. I think the Yanks were based in Royal Park.
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My grandfather was in one of the many brawls in Brisbane at that time. Ended up in hospital after being knocked unconscious when he copped a heavy glass ashtray to the back of his head. His version of the story was that he remembers escaping under a table, and then lights out. One of his mates carried him out and explained it to him in the hospital the next day. He also said he had his revenge by pi55ing on an extremely drunk American officer who was passed out outside the pub a few weeks later. He also told me a whole bunch of stories from when he was in New Guinea as an anti-aircraft gunner as well.
The day after my grandfather told me some of these stories my mum told me she had never heard any of them before. After the war he went back to logging and farming, and had two daughters. He never went to ANZAC days and wasnāt part of an RSL. I had just come back from East Timor, and I think he figured I could relate to them. He passed away about a year later so Iām glad I got to hear some of them, and that he felt he had someone who he could tell them to before he moved on.
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Wow, thanks for sharing.
Yeh, thanks George.
George is clearly a good bloke
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Explains why he is furious.
Sometimes Iām only mildly annoyed.
Where the frick is this āpostā and how do I get to it???
Itās forever out of reach.
Not anymore
I have it right now