“This Man Is Your Friend – The Englishman” – United States, 1942

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  1. Classic Americans for making a distinction between English and British troops, as if Welsh or Scottish troops would be less trustworthy.

  2. My favourite of this series is the Dutch sailor who looks like a kid on school photo day who’s been caught by surprise.

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  4. It’s worth pointing out that this had to be done as alot of yanks were of Irish decent and had grown up being told how much of a bunch of bastards the English were to the Irish.

  5. Really liked the follow up with the fuller set, too! Thanks for posting these. Interesting to see the now/then comparisons across a really disparate group.

  6. The yanks also had army videos starring the penguin saying that black men could drink in pubs…with white women. Didn’t stop the yanks kicking up a fuss though, ended up some pub landlords banning white americ*n soldiers as they wouldn’t be told.

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