Sentence examples for American gis from inspiring English sources

American GIs, who worshipped her, gave her name to the twin hills that dominated a battlefield in Korea.

These include movements like the huge aggregations of American soldiers in the Second World War in which American GIs wore them as dependable casualwear that was reminiscent of back home or counterculture statements by 50's teenagers who were told not to wear them by school authorities (so, duh, got to), or populations wanting to express their solidarity with the protest movements of the 60's.

In the 1960s, Yates the veteran defended American GIs, alienating campus opponents of the Vietnam War.

Girls lined up to sleep with American GIs in return for nylon stockings or canned food.

"I turned up and these two guys dressed as American GIs stopped me with mock rifles.

The American GIs are angrier and meaner than we were, using and abusing Vietnam's women, culture and politics.

However, it was American GIs who had liberated the Japanese camp and it was to America he escaped.

"They remember encounters with a curious British public and confrontation with the prejudices of white American GIs stationed in Britain".

Actors, pimps, hookers, villains, American GIs and slumming bohemians would drink, play poker and have a smoke there.

Morpurgo and Emma Rice's adaptation hop-skips nimbly between past and present, and around the lives of villagers, London child evacuees, and the lonesome African-American GIs stranded in a strange land.

I did an initiative that is somewhat similar to VC Solidarity, partnering with a colleague at Heidelberg University, concerning research on African-American GIs living in Germany after WWII.