Fleeting Attraction: A Social History of Servicemen in Western Australia During the Second World War

AUSTRALIAN MILITARY West Australiana

Arriving in early 1942, American servicemen were greeted by Western Australians as handsome heroes from a Hollywood dream-world, offering protection from invasion as the Japanese bombed the state’s northern outposts. Over the next three years thousands of naval personnel in Perth and coastal ports continued to have an impact that was more intense and more welcome than it was in other parts of Australia. #1214/0120/060123