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From: "Ruth Vitale" <>
Subject: Re: [WarBrides] War-Grooms?
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 22:18:43 +0000


What a wonderful tale! Thanks Shirley


>From: SHIRLEY HOLMES <>
>Reply-To:
>To:
>Subject: Re: [WarBrides] War-Grooms?
>Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 11:07:24 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Hi Ruth!
>I do have a story about one male "war bride"
>He was my husband! I was a WAC in the US Army Air Force, stationed in
>England with the 8th Air Force. The 8th was the heavy bombers and their
>support units. My husband, an Englishman from Yorkshire, was a radio
>officer in the Merchant Navy. It wasn't exactly the war that brought us
>together however because we had been pen pals long before the war began.
>And we had first met when his ship came to an Atlantic port not far from my
>home in the early winter of 1943. It was a very polite meeting and though
>I had already volunteered for the army I had not yet been called up. It
>was just luck that I was sent to England.
>
>When the War ended in Europe, I took my discharge in France and took a
>civilian job with the US War Department in Germany. We were married in
>1947 and he came to the US under provisions of the so-called War Brides
>Act. Once here and settled in my home town a newspaper story about us
>brought an invitation from the local chapter of British War Brides for him
>to join them as an honorary member. He was amused and pleased to accept.
>
>I am sure there must be several other male war brides in the US though I
>don't know of any others.
>
>Shirley
>Ruth Vitale <> wrote:
>With a tip of the hat to the old Cary Grant movie...
>
>Does anyone have any stories about"Male War Brides"? Gentlemen who
>married female service members and then came to live in their spouses
>homeland .
>
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