This was the US travel warning issued to Americans in Europe during World War II


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The speed in which American citizens can be alerted to violent outbreaks, natural disasters, and safety hazards abroad today is just one the significant ways that technology has changed the way we travel.

Today's travel warnings and emergency messages are sent via email and text messages to Americans abroad within a moment's notice, but these alerts couldn't always move so quickly. U.S. consular officers have warned U.S. citizens abroad about the risks and dangers they could encounter in a location since the founding of the United States, a representative from the Bureau of Consular Affairs explains to Skift. The practice was formally acknowledged in the 1978 creation

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