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I wonder if it might just be that Steven Ambrose was a better writer than Robert Leckie?
Of course, we also have to realize that a lot of The Pacific is based on Leckie's book - so we're seeing what was important to him. Obviously, he fell for that Aussie girl pretty hard.
I do see the irony in the fact that while the Aussies were off dying in China, the Americans were camping in Melbourne, "fraternizing" with their women. At least in the European Theater, the British soldiers were home with their wives and girlfriends while the Yanks were there. I have an old photo of my dad with his arm around some hot young Kiwi girl taken when he was in Aukland, NZ with the Navy around the same time.
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