: a woman who marries a serviceman ordered into active service in time of war
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: a woman who marries a serviceman especially of a foreign nation met during a time of war
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My grandmother was a war bride during World War II.
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When the show came out, Murray was living in upstate New York, but his childhood had been peripatetic: his father was a Veterans Affairs psychologist, and his mother was a British war bride.—👁 Image Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 15 June 2024 The creation of Asian Pacific Community Counseling Asian Pacific Community Counseling opened in 1976, when Asian women came to the United States as war brides and when refugees fled Vietnam, said Malroutu.—👁 Image Emma Hall, Sacramento Bee, 6 June 2024 This exceptional debut novel honors Amanda Churchill’s real grandmother, a Japanese war bride who relocated to a vast Texas ranch in the 1950s.—👁 Image Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Feb. 2024 Here, Davie portrays an Italian war bride cum lonely farm wife in 1960s Iowa who falls hard for a National Geographic photographer shooting Madison County’s renowned covered bridges.—👁 Image Peter Marks, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2023 More:The story of a Lincoln Park war bride who married in the middle of World War II Since Belle Isle is one of their favorite places to go together, Ford Motor Company has purchased a bench that will be located on the island with a message about their friendship.—👁 Image Chanel Stitt, Detroit Free Press, 21 Oct. 2021 Nick Barraco had just returned from World War II with an English war bride.—👁 Image Louisa Chu, chicagotribune.com, 12 Aug. 2020 Richard recalls reading The Courier Journal one day and seeing a photo of local French war bride Josette Bouchet Kearns and her husband William.—👁 Image Pat McDonogh, The Courier-Journal, 28 May 2020
