soc.history.war.world-war-ii

It seems to me I heard somewhere that hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote in article
<02e2fef0-c567-44c9-a31b-02683ded09cc@13g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>:

>On Mar 24, 7:22 pm, Eddie wrote:
>> My mother is a WWII war bride. But not from Europe. But from Mexico.
>> Or so she tells me. She is still alive at age 87. My step-father,
>> the man she married supposedly was able to list her as a "war bride"
>> and thus enabled my mother to become an American citizen. Could a
>> "war bride" come from any country?

>After the war ended there was tremendous US domestic pressure to bring
>the troops home at once. The problem was the it took years to place
>the troops all over the world and it would take time to bring them
>back. There just wasn't enough ocean ships and land railroads to
>accomodate everyone without it being spread over time. It became a
>contentious political issue. Railroads had very crowded conditions
>through 1946 as a result and the public was very angry about it.

[. . .]

>Anyway, one problem after the war was that many soldiers found wives
>either in allied countries or in occupied countries, and naturally
>wanted to bring them home. Aside from the social problem of women on
>a troopship with thousands of men, there just wasn't room.

Just to clarify, are you saying it made it difficult, or that it wasn't done? I
know it was done during the Korean war, because my American wife and I (we met
at our station in Japan) came home on a troopship that had quite a few couples
and families as well as bachelor troops in other parts of the ship.
--
Don Kirkman