As a Kiwi I'd like to say thanks to the US servicemen and their families too. They saved us from the dirty Japons for sure. the Japs had maps of New Zealand with the cities already renamed in Japanese.. One claim to fame; at least we massacered them at a POW camp when they rioted and tried to escape.
My Grandparents became very good friends with a gentleman from South Carolina who they had planned to catch up with after the war. Unfortunately there was no further comunication after he got to paua new guinea
