International: Leave Your Helmet On

Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery last week noted a new form of German sabotage. He said that German women were wearing fewer & fewer clothes, thereby undermining the U.S. and British Armies' non-fraternization policy.

G.I.s and Tommies bore out the Field Marshal's story. German girls in brief shorts and halters systematically sunned themselves in full view of U.S. engineers building a bridge over the Weser River. Sometimes the girls shed the halters.

Military policemen under orders to arrest fraternizers had their patience tried by a girl who patted her backside and whispered...

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