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City Gallery: Record and Analysis

 

 Over Paid, Over-Sexed and Over Here? 

Wednesday 17 February to Friday 30 April

 

City Gallery presents Over Paid, Over-Sexed and Over Here? U.S Marines in Wartime Melbourne, 1943.

 

From foreign policy to hamburgers, and stirring stories of youthful love and loss, the Marine's soujourn in Melbourne changed the city and its inhabitants forever.

 

View a collection of images from the exhibition 

 

About the Curators

 

Kate Darian-Smith is Professor of Australian Studies and History at the Australian Centre, University of Melbourne. Her publications on oral history, Australian society and war include the groundbreaking study, On the Home Front: Melbourne in Wartime 1939-1945 (second edition, Melbourne University Press, 2009).

 

Rachel Jenzen completed a Master of Arts in History at the University of Melbourne in 2000, and worked as a research assistant and tutor while undertaking her postgraduate studies. Rachel travelled extensively in the US for her research on the US Marines in wartime Victoria, creating a substantial archive of letters, interviews, memoirs and photographs.

 

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17/02/2010 - 30/04/2010
Battle-weary following the gruelling Guadalcanal campaign, the men of the First Marine Division, U.S. Marine Corps spent nine months in Victoria.
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The City Gallery presents a free, annual program of exhibitions that draw on the City of Melbourne’s extensive art and heritage collection. Devised...