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Keep quiet (United States and Allies):
While these campaigns were not exclusively aimed at women, the outsize presence of women on the home front meant that they were generally the main recipients of the message. Women working in factories, receiving letters from their men abroad, or home from their own deployments could all have information the Allies didn't want in Axis hands. Cautious women were made well aware that the best thing to say about their war work was usually nothing at all.
Strict Rules Women Had To Follow During World War II
Keep quiet (United States and Allies):
While these campaigns were not exclusively aimed at women, the outsize presence of women on the home front meant that they were generally the main recipients of the message. Women working in factories, receiving letters from their men abroad, or home from their own deployments could all have information the Allies didn't want in Axis hands. Cautious women were made well aware that the best thing to say about their war work was usually nothing at all.