What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France

The famous saying coined by the Brits for the American GI, 'The problem with the Americans is they are over paid, over sexed, a over here'

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/oversexed-overpaid-and-over-here.html

'...grew used to accepting subservience from all women and from the entire highly “feminised” French nation. ..'

That's funny. France survived the brutal German occupation and the devastation of the invasion. From what I read they were pretty ough.

From the movies I grew up with I'd say the image o the American soldier was not one of an iconic hansom as would be seen in Nazi propaganda films..

Ernie Pyle was an American icon of the war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Pyle

The imgae I grew up with was of the Anoercan GI 'dog face'.

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