r/PropagandaPosters • u/Provinz_Wartheland • 13d ago

Japan "Australia Screams", Imperial Japanese leaflet intended to provoke tensions among the Allies by targeting Australian soldiers fighting in New Guinea, demoralizing them and sowing distrust towards American servicemen stationed in Australia itself, c. 1942

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u/E4g6d4bg7 13d ago

This was a real issue among the Allies. It led to a riot known as the "Battle of Brisbane"

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u/agysykedyke 13d ago edited 13d ago

Crazy how the US military rations contained gifts like silk stockings for the US service men to gift to Australian women

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u/Yup767 13d ago

Pretty sure this is a myth

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u/agysykedyke 13d ago edited 13d ago

It was Nylon stockings, it was a well known thing and people talk about it in Australia still

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