A number of recordings included residents' anecdotes of U.S marines: their larger than life reputation for nylon stocking supplies, Australian women, better uniforms, superior food rations and a predisposition towards brawling and disorderly behaviour. Not all accounts were so lively, but here's Maidie on an encounter with a cheeky U.S Marine on the steps of Coles in Melbourne:
http://www.archive.org/details/BumpingIntoCheekyU.sMarineC1946
To view an amusing extract from an Australia propaganda film circa 1944 with its underlying subtext of encouraging restraint amongst US troops:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm_CjWTKvI0
And for a recollection by a publican of an incident - and the discipline that followed - in his pub in WA, here's George: http://www.archive.org/details/PubBehaviourAustraliaU.sMarinesWwiiPublicansReminiscence
