GI Brides: The Wartime Girls Who Crossed the Atlantic for Love (43 page)

Red Cross lessons for brides on shopping in America.

Courtesy American Red Cross. All rights reserved in all countries.

American Red Cross workers look after war brides' babies in the SS
Argentina
's playroom, 1946.

Courtesy of the American Red Cross. All rights reserved in all countries.

Sylvia during the war.

Mr. and Mrs. Bradley, with Sylvia as a child.

Sylvia and Bob on their wedding day.

Bob O'Connor in America.

Sylvia's son Barry.

The O'Connor house in Baltimore, today.

Sylvia (
second right
) and The Bluebell Branch.

Rae in her Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) uniform.

Rae's mother.

Rae's sister, Mary, in her Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) uniform.

Rae's brothers, Vic and Bill.

Raymond and Rae.