I just ran across this interesting snippet from a booklet distributed to all American service personnel who were stationed in Australia during WWII:

"...There is one thing to get straight, right off the bat. You aren't in Australia to save a helpless people from the savage Jap. Maybe there are fewer people in Australia than in New York City, but their soldiers, in this war and the last, built up a great fighting record. For three years now they have fought on nearly every battle front of the war; they've suffered heavy losses in Crete, Libya, Greece and Malaya, and they're still in there pitching.

The Australians need our help in winning this war, of course, but we need theirs just as much."

'nuff said.

T.