The American War Bride Experience

GI Brides of World War II

Feb. 6, 2006, Omaha World-Herald

Ready for Emergency

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Chubby one year old James Devercelly doesn’t mind life jacket drill on the Queen Mary. He’s aboard the liner en route with his British mother to New York and a reunion with his American father Sgt. Ed Devercelly.
(NOTE: James and his mother Rose arrived in N.Y. on Feb. 10th on the Queen Mary from St Neots, Hunts, England)

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Getting acquainted with their cabins aboard Queen Mary are two Brits wives of American GIs and their children. L to R. Mrs. Rhoda Gardner and LeRoy 14 mos., wife and son of PO Owen Carl Gardner [of Cincinnati, Ohio] and Russell, 14 mos., and Dorothy, wife and son of ex PO Sammie Gerace, Plaquemine, La.

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