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28juni14


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Apparently fraternization was near instantaneous.



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womanizing rather than fraternization?


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The same guy you reckon?

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Different horses. Troopers might share their women, but never their horses.

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apparantly they already started kissing at home, as these boys are ready to embark.

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Ha, I remember as a boy, after the kissing everyone sang the ships off with the "Maori Farewell" ("Now is the hour") - this was early 1950s but apparently it started with the NZ troopships in WW1 - "Po atarau" being the Maori version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y6_rTamhqk

I wonder if there were other songs in other countries when the troopships sailed?

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Like "Muss i denn, muss i denn .... zum Städterle hinaus .... Städterle hinaus .... und Du mein Schatz bleibst hier!" ??

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Rectalgia wrote:

Ha, I remember as a boy, after the kissing everyone sang the ships off with the "Maori Farewell" ("Now is the hour") - this was early 1950s but apparently it started with the NZ troopships in WW1 - "Po atarau" being the Maori version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y6_rTamhqk

I wonder if there were other songs in other countries when the troopships sailed?


Talking about that, Maoris must of fought in WWI right?

 



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Yes indeed, fairly small numbers but then the total population of NZ was quite low too. I think there were maybe some hard feelings over the Maori wars (1845 to 1872) which were still within living memory at that time but I guess most Maori regarded those as more or less honourably concluded.

Maori recruitment poster

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elbavaro wrote:

Like "Muss i denn, muss i denn .... zum Städterle hinaus .... Städterle hinaus .... und Du mein Schatz bleibst hier!" ??



Elvis - of course! (Took a while for the penny to drop) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s3WAULJN5A

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'Wooden Heart' that was, having only a few original lines of the song in it. I think The King even sang 'mein schat' instead of schatz but who cares.
I guess Elvis the Pelvis came in by plane (a Stratocruiser, Constellation may be?) and not by a troopship. Happy cold war days!
As we're happily veering off the topic, it began with kissing remember? a picture of an US troopship and one of the landing in France, again with music.

regards, Kieffer

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Rectalgia wrote:

Different horses. Troopers might share their women, but never their horses.


They shared their tents Steve, they surely did!

 



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