The Battle of Queensland Blvd

[Heibges]

Has anyone heard of "The Battle of Queensland Blvd" during WWII?

[Sailor Steve]

Not me. Even Google didn't help.

[longam]

http://www.wikipedia.org/ you might try here.

[alunatic]

Nope, never heard of it. I would like to find out though. To Wiki!

Even Wikipedia didnt have it so its either not real or not significant what so ever.

[PepsiCan]

Wasn't that a bar brawl that turned into a street fight in Brisbane between various services some time in 1942?

[JScones]

No "Battle of Queensland", unless you are talking about the Cowboys v the Broncos, but there was a "Battle of Brisbane"... http://home.st.net.au/~dunn/ozatwar/bob.htm

[SteveW1]

Interesting read and it seems it all started over a leave pass, I wonder if all the individuals back then even knew what they were fighting about.:nope:

[Reaves]

As long as we won. :p

[Fearless]

:lol:

[Capt. Shark Bait]

anything like what happened here?

http://www.civilization.ca/cwm/newspapers/canadawar/halifax_e.html

http://www.angelfire.com/ns/bkeddy/riots.html

[the_belgian]

quote:"There were many investigations into the cause of the disturbance and many a discussion on how to ease the tensions and avoid a similar event. Besides the obvious effect of the liquor imbibed on the night of the disturbance, the other main contributing factors that seem to have raised the deep-seated frustration amongst the Australian servicemen were:-
- American pay levels compared to the Australians
- smarter American uniforms compared to the Australians
- shops and hotels favouring the well-paid Americans
- Americans pinching their Aussie girls (and in some cases their wives)
- and the Americans' custom of caressing girls in public"

So the same as in England and later after the war had ended in all libirated and ocupied terotories.
Happy to see the Yanks comming but even more happy to see them go back home!