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‘Indeed, an amusing war - for the Americans’. One of 19 propaganda leaflets, 1944. Dropped on 4th Reconnaissance Regiment, Italy. Printed between April and September 1944. ‘By the way, old chap, did you ever think it over why the “inexhaustible reserves in man-power” of America have not turned up yet’; ‘It is beyond doubt that the Germans have concentrated crack troops at Cassino for whom only the very best allied troops can be a match’; the leaflet refers to a note found on an American prisoner of war, Cpl Richard Rogers of L Coy 3rd Bn 350th Infantry Regiment 88th Infantry Division, recounting an English publican’s daughter’s apparent sexual assault at the hands of an American serviceman in London, ‘”Before I could say Trafalgar Square, he grabs me by the Ass, shoves me under a tree, ins me, outs me,” wipes his tallywhacker on me petticoat, drinks me old man’s beer pisses in the bucket, and walks of whistling, ‘God save the King’, and you ask me, do I know Americans?”’ Associated with World War Two, Italy (1943-1945).

Cassino, Battles for, 1944 (World War Two, Italy 1943-1945)