![]() Over the next two years, an influx of US aircrew and soldiers arrived in the UK ready to enter Nazi-occupied Europe. ![]() In the spring of 1942, the Yanks, as they were known, didn’t just leapfrog over theatre seats – an entire generation of young American men crossed an ocean to arrive on our war-torn shores.Įighty years ago this week – on 7 December 1941 – the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, a US Navy base in Hawaii, which prompted the United States to enter the Second World War and join the Allies in the fight against the Axis powers of Japan, Germany and Italy. Restrained London audiences have never seen behaviour like it. ![]() Soon the whole front row is filled with boisterous, cigar-chomping young men, all eager to get close to the beautiful young women on stage. ‘Shake it, sister!’ whoops a particularly enthusiastic GI as he vaults the red-velvet seat and takes the lead. The ‘steeplechase race’ to get the coveted front-row seats of the Windmill Theatre has begun. Theatregoers look around nervously, but this is no bombing raid. ![]() It starts as a low rumble, then the ground begins to tremble. It’s a steamy summer night in wartime Soho. Getting the party started – American troops and their friends celebrate VE Day in Piccadilly Circus, central London, ![]()
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