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War Bride Stories
Last Update 12/2008
Seeking War Brides stories. Please forward them to Stories.
Helene Barkey Tracked Her Soldier Into France By her daughter, Elizabeth Granger
Emilia Zecchino, Italian War Bride
Irene Hedrick Going home again!
Interview of Luisa V. Solomito, Italian War Bride
Gilberte [Farge] Crowell of Paris, France
Remembering D-Day
Simone [McCarty] Mallinson of Marseilles, France
Letters for Request to Marry Papers and pictures of Betty and Edward Hawks
First Winter by Dawne McLeod Sharpe
Dawne McLeod Sharpe's Journal On the Monterey to the U.S.
Betty Millard Hawks Australian Papers to Request to Marry
Anni Neuman Adams onboard the S.S. Valcania
Hideko Juchnik's life is story of pain, privilege - and hunt for meaning by Bob Sylva
Personal Account of Joan Stubbs
She talks about what was need to get permission to marry and travel to the U.S. - Lots of Details!
When USASOS Moved to Brisbane – or on the Ball
Maria Kruk Greenstein, Polish Refugees
Love, War & an Act of Congress
Interview with Barbara Brisbin, Angela Barnett, Joan Patterson and Sunny Sansing
Diary of a French War Bride, in French
Filomena Kepler
They met in Bari, Italy
Terry Juntoff
When The Women 'Over There' Came Over Here
English Hilda and G.I. Eddie's Story
Ruth Poore Batchen, From Liverpool to Cut Bank
A Story of Montana War Bride
Anne E. Fleming from Bainbridge Island, WA
Ann Hughes
Reflections of a German War Bride
Rita Anderson
War Bride from London
Jeanne Conn
From Brussels, Belgium to Philadelphia, PA
GI BRIDES: Gold Diggers or Overcomers?
A daughter's View point
Jeanita Coulthard Camm
From Maryport England went to Virginia and had a wonderful life
Anna Franklin Coulter
From Kassel, Germany - You bet, I would do it again in a heartbeat!
Luisa Solomito
From Naples, Italy, Interviewed by Michelle MCCleary
Paula Mihalko Remembers - 'Resistance' and working with Canada's Royal Hamilton Light Infantry
Jorgen Nielsen - I Was A Male War Bride
Janine Lytle - French War Brides Thanks GIs For Freeing Paris
Getting Read To Go To The United States Mother's Diary about Trip to New York
Mireille Rostad - 2004 Reunion in Belgium
Joan Stubb's Story by Bill Longo
...and Life Proceeded A daughter's tells her mother's story.
Marge Vallazze - Scottish War Bride Comes To Texas
Erika Walter Foy - German Woman Displaced Person and her story
Mathilde (Mayer) [Morgan] Morris Author of Dreams and Nightmares of a German War Brides talks about her life.
Joan Shaw - From California tells her story
Katharina Trost - War Brides Recall Their Turning Points
Kazue Katz - Blazed trail for thousands as first Japaness War Bride
Margaret L. - War Bride Was Awed
German War Brides in Union City, New Jersey
Vera Jensen - War Bride Trades Breslau for Bickleton German Bride talks about her GI Keith.
Barbara Guley Braley - Diary
Day by Day Account on the E. B. Alexander
Annemarie Lauenstein - First German War Bride To Receive Exit Permit
Bob and Annemarie share hospital room in St. Louis.
Pat Weaver - Still time to call it off, said her mother
Horrors On Board the Zebulon B. Vance
Joyce VonStrahl's remarkable story about her experience of survival
Cathernie Kiefer - On the John Erisscon
English War Bride talks about one April day on the John Erisscon
Sylvia Lauderbaugh - From Liverpool, Eng to farm wife in Nebraska This is a filmed Interview about her thoughts during WWII and dating a GI
A Soldier Falls In Love
All it took was a minute and it lasted a lifetime.
Journal Aboard SS Lurline
Aussie War Bride Kathleen Newell kepts Journal.
Josephine Dodge My life during and after Hitler.
Ivy Diers Aussie Brides, Life with her True Blue Love
Bonnie Keck After Giving Him 34 yrs. He Left
Belgium War Bride Simone Marousek I wished many times that I had returned to Belgium.
French War Brides Genette Huerta Parachutte Wedding Dress Goes A Long Way.
Jean travels on the E.B. Alexander Only One Trunk Was All I Could Take.
Welsh War Bride: Frances Spencer
A Hard But Wonderful Life
Memiors of a War Bride
P.B. Farley of New Jersy talks about early times in the US.
A Love Story With A Twist
English husband entered the US under the War Brides Act.
War Bride recalls Trip to Canada by Joan Reichardt
Ellis Island - THRU THESE GATES
Denise Corke's Diary of Time Spent at Ellis Island
Glades, an English Bride talks about trading tea for coffee
"Trudy", a German Bride hated her new life in rural Tennessee
Simone L.Kirton of England talks about joining the ATS
Norma Castillo - Filipino Smitten with American Ideal by Gene Park
On The Web
(These links are on the internet)
Memoir of an Australian War Bride by Jean Null
Joyce Alexander - War bride wore English heritage as badge of honor
"Mary Rose O'Donnell" - Love Under Fire, The War Brides
by Alice Bateman
This is a work in progress and Alice has 10 chapters finish. She would like to hear from other war brides to help with her research. Alice has a questionnaire section at her site. Please take a little time to answer it.
Mrs. Mary Oliver: WWII Revisited
Interview with Naeko Keen of the Pacific Islands
Interview with Katrina Jackson of Bastian, Italy
The Scottish War Brides of World War 2
Johan Hilles DeWitt of Glasgow Scotland, now living in Canada
Irene Creighton From London, England to Monmouth Junction, South Carolina,
Molly Wilson, Australian War Brides comes to the US.
Doreen Shears' Story Life in Exeter, England during the War.
The War Bride Inverted by Andrew McDermott
"How my grandmother went to Europe and came back with my grandfather."
Filipino-American Warbrides
Banana Leaves For Shoes
Japanese War Brides Stories
Teruko Blair, recalling her painful life in occupied Japan, after her secret marriage to an Australian serviceman.
Aunt Eva's poem about being torn between her new home and her old one.
Barbara Greenspun: Unsung strength War bride to wife behind the scenes of many battles.
Australians Stories of love and war
Between 1943 and 1950, the largest number of Australians to ever permanently leave this country farewelled all they had known and set off on a voyage half way around the world, to an uncertain future in the United States. They were the "war brides", and Modern History student Robyn Arrowsmith is recording their remarkable stories.
Jean Bustos - Bride learns about this prejudiced country as she is married to a Mexican American from Blairsville, Texas.
Rita (Charlton) Rizzuto and Lily (Rusty) Nakles - From England and both married to G.I.s Talks about finding romance.
Margaret Gerhard Jones - World War II war bride She was born in the city of Frankfurt, Germany
Mrs. Cesira Slawson, Italian War Bride Interview by Gretchen Morgan.
Mon Amour, Ma Chéri: A Story of Love and War by Steve Damish
A French women who spoke no English and an American GI who spoke no French.
Aussie War Bride Recalls Duty as Radio Operator Sunny Sansing interview with Dana Wilkie
In a world war, they found love -- and marriage by M.L. Lyke
‘War brides’ remain close through years By Kathy Mellott
Love amid war He grew up poor in Oregon. She grew up in a comfortable life in France by Sheila Hagar
War bride loved sharing experiences By Rob Schneider
A Wife’s Devotion by Julitra Anaada
Amazing Grace
GI bride, Madge Wing of Wales
Meet War Brides Anne L. Fox, a German Jewish child living in England during the war.
Video
Memories of a GI Bride
Peggy Wharton of Carolina Meadows, N.C.
Reiko Matsumoto Hillard, Japanese war bride quickly won hearts in new home
German war bride Maria Toupin loves to cook.
British War Bride - Irene Herz
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