“Where permitted, and even where it didn’t, servicemen and pretty girls hauled off for a little jitterbugging. Of the thousands of servicemen in the area there was hardly a one whose face wasn’t liberally sprinkled with lipstick. One sailor, trailed by a nosy reporter, was kissed 11 times in one block.”
“One soldier threw his arms around a very pretty woman in her late 20s and tried to kiss her. She said: ‘I’m married, I’m married!’ The soldier retorted: ‘Well, tell your husband this is with the compliments of the Third Division,’ and gave her a resounding smack.”
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