Post-WWII - 1946, England: War Brides, British, GI Wives Set Out For America
EXT Waterloo Station, London; CU chalk sign ‘10.40am G.I. Brides For Tidworth Will Leave From...’; first of 50,000 British wives and children of American GIs onto train bound for reception area at Tidworth; train leaves station, relatives waving. CUs three women w/ babies bound for California, Philadelphia and New Jersey. Women in hats eating sandwiches. Women wait w/ suitcases in snow to board buses for reception area; sign ‘Wives No Children Queue Here’; women and children onto buses; ‘Wot no husbands’ scrawled on back of bus; buses off w/ US military vehicles.
09:03:03 CU sign ‘HQ Perham Downs Detachment Tidworth - Reception Area’. Smiling women w/ babies into ‘Women Only’ building - luggage carried by German prisoners of war. Transport ship USAT / SS Argentina docked at Southampton waiting to take women to US. Good.
Post-WW2; 1940s Fashions; PoWs; Tidworth Army Base;
NOTE: Partial or entire sold at per reel rte.
NOTE: First ship of war brides saile on 26Jan46; arrived NYC 04Feb46. SEE ALSO LN 501-904 & 22???? for other war bride stories.
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Post-WWII - 1946, England: War Brides, British, GI Wives Set Out For America EXT Waterloo Station, London; CU chalk sign ‘10.40am G.I. Brides For Tidworth Will Leave From...’; first of 50,000 British wives and children of American GIs onto train bound for reception area at Tidworth; train leaves station, relatives waving. CUs three women w/ babies bound for California, Philadelphia and New Jersey. Women in hats eating sandwiches. Women wait w/ suitcases in snow to board buses for reception area; sign ‘Wives No Children Queue Here’; women and children onto buses; ‘Wot no husbands’ scrawled on back of bus; buses off w/ US military vehicles. 09:03:03 CU sign ‘HQ Perham Downs Detachment Tidworth - Reception Area’. Smiling women w/ babies into ‘Women Only’ building - luggage carried by German prisoners of war. Transport ship USAT / SS Argentina docked at Southampton waiting to take women to US. Good. Post-WW2; 1940s Fashions; PoWs; Tidworth Army Base; NOTE: Partial or entire sold at per reel rte. NOTE: First ship of war brides saile on 26Jan46; arrived NYC 04Feb46. SEE ALSO LN 501-904 & 22???? for other war bride stories.