Re. "D-Day dodgers", my friend's father was one, and he knew the song in a slightly different form. That might just have been a problem remembering, of course. He told me that the trains carrying the troops were festooned with inflated condoms and banners saying "Lady Astor's boys" and the like. (You'll remember Lady Astor was a very, er, prominent former American turned British Member of Parliament.)

I heard a story of a USAF or USAAF wartime outfit that flew in to Britain from one of the Southern States to find the locals had put up banners saying "Welcome Yanks" - they nearly turned around and flew straight back!

I dare say the ... let's call it friendly rivalry ... between the UK and the US deserves a thread to itself; maybe even England and the rest of the world. But I've no intention of being thought unpatriotic, not to mention upsetting all my new friends on the 'Cat, so I'll let someone else start it. Personally, I think its' very inefficient for Brits to hate Americans, when the French are now only a train ride away.

Steve