What did not help was the soldiers were not receiving any care packages or letters from home.

To achieve this, the women needed to get creative to decipher where these letters were supposed to go.

However, other tactics were needed at times.

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For instance, perfumes and fabrics could be clues about where a soldier’s loved ones were.

“They did not send us because they thought we could do it.

We are here because they are sure we cannot.”

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Some of the information was also too generic to ever determine who was the sender or receiver.

There was the looming threat of air raids and bombs.

Source:TIME

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