GIs eating ice cream
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Press coverage of the American troops in Melbourne emphasized the wholesome and familiar - eating ice cream, drinking Coca Cola and coffee, and different styles of dancing and music-making.
Photographer unknown, c.1943
Accession number: H2000.200/1167
From the State Library of Victoria's Pictures collection. Gift of The Age (Melbourne, Vic.), 1976