His Father, Andrew a Scottish farmer from Lanarkshire. Young Andrew spent his formative years living at a station called “Buckenbah’ in the western districts of New South Wales. The land was unfenced; Dingo infested and was leased by his Father and Uncle from the Crown for a few pennies an acre. And the bush has friends to meet him, and their kindly voices greet him In the murmur of the breezes, and the rivers on its bars And he sees the vision splendid of the sunlit plains extended And at night the wondrous glory of the everlasting stars. Oh the airman's game is a showman's game, for we all of us watch him go,With his roaring soaring aeroplane and his bombs for the blokes below. Over the railways and over the dumps, over the Hun and the Turk,You'll hear him mutter, . And I sing of the rankless, thankless man who hustles the Army mules. Now where he comes from and where he lives is a mystery dark and dim. Mules served in large numbers with U.S. Army forces during World War II. In the words of a veteran of the China-Burma-India Theater, retired. ![]() ![]() Great Mule Caper detailed, finally Mids nabbed 4 Army mascots on eve of big game. The Army mules were a different story, however.
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