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Much of the origins of this trope can trace back to World War II, where millions of young men were shipped across the world and packed into military bases with virtually no women in them. Fraternization with the civilian population was generally discouraged, and so nurses were often the only girls the average solider would encounter for months at a time. This was paticularly acute in the Southern Pacific Theater, where for the hundreds of men on an isolated island, the handful of nurses at the base hospital might very well have been the only female presence for thousands of miles.

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