The First Lady of World War II with Shannon McKenna Schmidt
The Preamble
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The Importance of Intuitive Troops in New Zealand
The US did not have battalions of entirely indigenous troops in World War II. She made like three or four stops in New Zealand. One of them was to road arua, which is the home of the Maori,. It was this contrast to the US, which was not an integrated society. The newspapers cheered her on, and especially the Australians, they loved that.
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