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My father was in the RAAF during World War 2 and served in New Guinea. The American servicemen there had much better uniforms and equipment than the Australians or British, especially in footwear. The Australian boots fell to bits in the tropical climate, but the US ones were very hardwearing.

My father asked my mother back in NSW to send him a bottle of whiskey. She hollowed out a large loaf of bread, put the bottle inside, packed it with the breadcrumbs and sent it to him in the post. It arrived intact and my father swapped it for a pair of US army boots. They lasted him for years.

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