Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nicoletta “Nicki” Fortuniti and her niece, Diane Hannum. During World War II, about 300,000 American service members fell in love ...

Dozens of foreign brides rejoined their discharged husbands in Erie after World War II. Families and organizations mustered to welcome them.

During World War I, the term “war bride” was coined to describe women who were hastily married before their new husbands shipped off to Europe. Whether due to values or norms of the time, soldiers ...

She had married U.S. Navy Lt. Frank Kranz in London on March 31, 1944, after a six-week courtship that started at a dance in South Wales, where she grew up. "His ship was torpedoed, and he put in to ...

The mystery of a young war bride from Reykjavik who immigrated to Portland in 1946 is solved. She had married a brute, and she had to surrender her two children to the state. Then she disappeared. The ...

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 ...

Masako and Irvine McConney Sr. drove from California to New York in 1955. Along the way several hotels and restaurants denied Irvine entry, so they slept and ate in the car. Courtesy of the McConney ...