War bride

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War brides are women who married military personnel from other countries in times of war or during military occupations, a practice that occurred in great frequency during World War I and World War II. Allied servicemen married many women in other countries where they were stationed at the end of the war, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan, France, Italy, Greece, Germany, Poland, Luxembourg, Armenia, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan, Korea, India, and the Soviet Union. Similar marriages also occurred in Korea and Vietnam with the later wars in those countries involving US troops and other anti-communist soldiers. The term war brides was first used to refer to women who married Canadian servicemen overseas and then later immigrated to Canada after the world wars to join their husbands. It first started when in January 1919, the Canadian government offered to transport all dependents of Canadian servicemen...

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