Got Any Gum Chum?

When the first American servicemen arrived in England in March 1942, the indigenous population greeted their presence with mixed feelings. A certain level of resentment was harbored by the English and expressed by many in the in the well-worn phase of the time "overpaid, oversexed, and over here." But without the American presence in Britain and its huge military and industrial muscle, the war with Germany would probably have been lost. Using a combination of contemporary eyewitness and document