The American War Bride Experience

GI Brides of World War II

November 24, 1945 - Syracuse Herald Journal (Syracuse, New York)

U.S. Hold GI Proxy Marriages Invalid, Lawyer Claims

CHICAGO (ins) – The Federal government today was reported challenging the validity of GI proxy marriages. Attorney Thomas McKinley, retained to represent the Chicago wife of a missing Army officer, asserted the government was not recognizing such marriages and was according denying widows and children. He estimated there had been 2,000 GI proxy marriages.

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