They were the largest group of female migrants in American history – the hundreds of thousands of young women who travelled to the United States in the aftermath of World War Two to spend the rest of ...

Today we get to hear from authors Duncan Barrett and Nuala Calvi, whose GI Brides, an anthology of romantic stories about British women who left their homes to marry American soldiers, is out now.

GI War Brides #1 is a combination of romance and war comic from Superior Comics. It was published in 1954, and this is a book that should be on your radar. According to Heritage Auctions, where this ...

They sailed to America in 1946, the fresh-faced, eager young brides of GIs who had come to England to help liberate Europe from the Nazis and who had fallen in love along the way. Many of the brides, ...

WEBVTT 73 TUESDAY WITH A 30% CHANCE OF RAIN. AS WE REFLECT ON AMERICAN HISTORY WE TURN OUR ATTENTION TO MORE MODERN CONFLICT AND ITS IMPACT ON WOMEN. AFTER WORLD WAR II MORE THAN 70,000 G.I. BRIDES ...

Peabody resident Simone Howland still remembers the moment she met her late husband 68 years ago. Howland, 87, was just 19 when her home city of Brussels, Belgium, was reeling from the destruction of ...

Sgt. Sean Blackwell expects to leave strife-torn Baghdad for the States by Christmas – but he’s not happy about it, and neither is his Iraqi wife. The two have been barred by the military from seeing ...

KIRKLAND -- Love, marriage and sex are sacred topics in any beauty salon. Yesterday, war was added to the mix at the Body Boutique as Jennifer Powell tried out hairdos for her soldier-boy's homecoming ...

Ehda’a Blackwell is a prisoner of love. The 25-year-old Iraqi doctor is living in fear and uncertainty in Baghdad, married to an American GI who is under orders not to see or even speak to her. “I ...