Over Sexed, Over Paid and Over Here … Again? Americans on R&R in Vietnam-Era Sydney
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 17699540 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carol Dixon (0000-0002-1582-7903, Macquarie UniversityEmail), Jon Piccini (0000-0002-0770-8963, Australian Catholic University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 433-451 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1031-461X • E-ISSN: 1940-5049 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1031461x.2022.2032225 |
| OpenAlex | W4221016417 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Between 1967 and 1971, 280,000 US military personnel visited Sydney on ‘Rest and Recreation’ (R&R) leave from the conflict in Vietnam. During the period in which the R&R program was being negotiated, Australian authorities, along with correspondents to daily newspapers, worried that the presence of large numbers of ‘cashed-up’ Americans would see the public repudiate the R&R scheme, the war and the relationship with the United States. These concerns proved largely unfounded as a majority of Australians welcomed the visiting Americans as both the human face of an alliance deemed critical to the nation’s security and a return of a ‘long lost friend’ from World War II
Alliance · Economic history · Newspaper · Political science · Recreation · Social science · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Vietnam War · World War II · Australian History and Society · History · Law · Medicine
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |