THIS AMERICAN SOLDIER–SERIAL KILLER TERRORIZED WARTIME AUSTRALIA It wasn’t a good time, but there were some great times. The women of Melbourne, Australia, had their own duties to fulfill on the homefront during World War II: factory work, raising children, welcoming American GIs flooding into the city. Late-night dances in Melbourne’s “brownout” — not quite a blackout but certainly dark enough to obscure the city from any Japanese pilots lurking above — were lighthearted fun, a break from the stresses of war. Until women’s bodies began turning up.
The corpse of Ivy McLeod, 40, was discovered in the early hours of May 3, 1942; she had been strangled in an inner-city neighborhood. Pauline Thompson, 31, turned up less than a week later, strangled and dumped in her own doorway at the edge of the city. Gladys Hosking, 40, was found on May 18 in a park near Camp Pell, a massive camp housing thousands of GIs awaiting word on when they’d be shipped out to the Pacific theater. Two of the three women had last been seen alive in the company of a man with an American accent. The hunt was on.
The Yanks had been welcomed to the city, says Bart Ziino, a historian at Victoria’s Deakin University. As the war tore across Europe, troops in Southeast Asia were thinned to protect the homefront. Imperial Japan snapped up the region, taking advantage of local populations weakened by colonialism. With Australian and New Zealand forces supporting the British in the Middle East, invasion looked near certain.
It didn’t help that Winston Churchill had abandoned Australia, refusing to send troops to protect the country. In response, Prime Minister John Curtin reached out to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who sent thousands of servicemen from 1942 onward. By 1943, 250,000 American GIs were roaming the streets of Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Australia and its population of 7 million finally felt safe.
In the end, Japan never did invade. The real wartime terror for Melbourne came in the form of an American GI.
New Jersey–born Eddie Leonski was conscripted into the Army in 1941, prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. Keen to leave behind a family life marred by abuse and mental health issues, the private developed alcoholism during training in Texas, according to military documents. Around that time he also reportedly attempted to strangle a woman. If his superiors in the Army were aware of these allegations, it did not prevent them from shipping the 24-year-old off to Australia in January 1942.
For Australian women, it was a heady time of incremental but definite social change. Women had always been in the industrial workforce, especially working-class women, according to Ziino. But women moving into paid work in much greater numbers took off around this time. “The Japanese threat saw the economy really ramp up,” he says, noting how women were required to move into armaments production and other industrial sectors.
They also had a special role when it came to U.S. forces — show them a good time. This didn’t necessarily mean sex, but it did mean engaging socially in pubs, bars and dance halls. It was a tough world for the women to navigate — the freedoms afforded by the war existed within a conservative culture. Be friendly, but not too friendly. “Women weren’t throwing themselves at the men,” says Ziino. “But commentary at the time criticized them for being too forward.”
Americans were seen as morally looser. So when the trio of dead women indicated a crime with sexual elements — all three victims had pieces of clothing removed or were partially disrobed — the police headed to Camp Pell. “There was a sense it had to be an American serviceman, if only for the comfort that it couldn’t be one of us,” Ziino explains.....
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Emphasis mine :-)
We've covered so many such exploits lately but I can't seem to find a general cumulative page for 'em. (Anybody know of one here?) 4um is of course a first-rate source of such information -- just search MILITARY or CRIMES etc. and it's incredible.
Comrade Leonski is a dieversity home-run, having been born to "Russian-born parents John Leonski, labourer, and his wife Amelia, née Harkavitz, in New Jersey,[6] Leonski grew up in an abusive, alcoholic family. One of his brothers was committed to a mental institution. According to a psychologist who interviewed Leonski during his trial, his mother had been overprotective and controlling. Leonski had been bullied by other neighborhood kids and called a mama's boy. Accordingly, the psychologist ruled that Leonski's crimes were born of his resentment and hatred of his mother and thus constituted 'symbolic matricide'" (wikid).
By coincidence something truly portentious crost my digital desk this very day. You all know of the Corbett Report, the outstanding citizen news and documentary podcast that's totally fearless and uncompromising except where anything jew or dieverse is concerned. Here's one of James' more unusual presentations:
672 -- Jan Irvin on the CIA, MK-ULTRA, and the Creation of the Drug Culture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZmZEvJV7Ww
From about the 22:00 point is Eisenhower's TV speech about the military- industrial complex. WELL it turns out he was really telling ameriKa it was stuck with this abomination forever as a result of having gone so deliriously for WW2!
Don't miss it, or the fact that Ike's got his little right paw stationed in front of his belly -- a Masonic signal akin to the "hidden hand" stuck inside the coat or vest à la Napoleon et al.
Among the many damning (and weird-as-hell) images shown in Texe Marrs' book masterpiece is a photo of Boy George Bush making this same fisted sign -- in a magazine ad, dressed in some kind of robe. There's no explanation given re the product being pushed, but when was that ever needed with a great Republican statesman like drunk-doper commie-fag yankee-Texan "W"?
So here to start off the official master collection are two nice dieverse vignettes from the "Great War". Ike certainly considered it that -- he the hemi-Semite quadroon was on a personal rampage against Germans, just as he went to open war against whites as Pezident in launching the civil riots revolution with the invasion of Little Rock.