WASHINGTON - Vera is certain even now that it began with the red dress. London in the waning months of World War II was unbearably dark and dreary. Vera Cracknell was just 18, and sick of the barrage ...

The lives of World War II British war brides and their struggles to be reunited with the soldiers they love.

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 ...

As a young British woman caught up in the trauma of World War II, Irene Hope welcomed U.S. troops with open arms. Enticed by the prospect of an idyllic future stateside, she married an American airman ...

“Be warned,” cried the headline in London’s Daily Express. “This is a story of horror, brutality and evil. It is the story of the postwar life of an English war bride in Czechoslovakia. It is a ...

As a young British war bride, Esther "Betts" Henry traveled by boat across the Atlantic Ocean in 1946, settling in Downer, Minn., to make a new life with her husband, Lamont Henry, an American soldier ...

I was watching an episode of PBS’ “My Grandparents’ War,” in which British actress Carey Mulligan was surprised to find out that, when her grandfather was stationed in Australia briefly during World ...

As a young British woman caught up in the trauma of World War II, Irene Hope welcomed U.S. troops with open arms. Enticed by the prospect of an idyllic future stateside, she married an American airman ...