Written ten years after the end of the war, this article is about how the conflict interrupted the domestic bliss between man and wife, sending millions of young men and women to dangerous and boring locales they would never have seen under normal circumstances and the social interactions that ensued:
"At the beginning of World War II, our army was a mixture of callow boys and and domesticated men. The older men were homesick for wives and children, the younger men felt themselves on the verge of an adventure they didn't quite understand. While most were unsure of themselves, their need for women was painfully apparent...There were plenty of lonely wives, too, and it soon became evident that a fair number of them were committed to the belief that continence was bad for women."
One British lass complained that the Americans were sub-standard in the bedroom...
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