Gonorrhea Quotes
There were no easy cures for these venereal diseases then. The War Department (What it was called in those days.) used patriotism to encourage celibacy.
Each day of WWII, 18,000 American servicemen were incapacitated by Venereal Disease --- more than by battle wounds on most days. This prevention poster appeared in Army bases throughout the world from 1942-1944. The “Three” were Hitler, Hirohito, and a skeletal “woman of the evening”. This was a shocking poster for many servicemen (and civilians) as the WWII attitudes were such that for the vast majority of Americans, nothing would be worse than Hitler and Hirohito.