--- title: Veterans Day: Read a 1946 Newspaper for War Brides description: On Veterans Day, a look back at another group touched by conflict: the war brides of World War II canonical: https://time.com/4099810/wives-aweigh-veterans-day/ author: Lily Rothman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-11T13:00:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:41:42.836Z article:section: History og:title: See a Newspaper for WWII Brides on Their Way to a New Home og:description: On Veterans Day, a look back at another group touched by conflict: the war brides of World War II og:url: https://time.com/4099810/wives-aweigh-veterans-day/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc512a13447c7887e/69886fa55f570f3d4bb1e2d1/151104-war-brides.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1213 og:image:height: 682 og:image:alt: June Allen and her son (center). og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See a Newspaper for WWII Brides on Their Way to a New Home twitter:description: On Veterans Day, a look back at another group touched by conflict: the war brides of World War II twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc512a13447c7887e/69886fa55f570f3d4bb1e2d1/151104-war-brides.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # See a Newspaper Written for WWII Brides on Their Way to a New Home > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: The Iconic Photo of D-Day [Watch (HLS stream): The Iconic Photo of D-Day](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/8CmPFMLD.m3u8) (4:56)  _Published 2011-02-10. Robert Capa's LIFE photos of the invasion of Normandy -- and a lone soldier near the beach -- are icons of WWII, and were almost destroyed_  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Nov 11, 2015 1:00 PM UTC  June Allen and her son (center). June Allen and her son (center). Courtesy of June Allen  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Nov 11, 2015 1:00 PM UTC Though Veterans Day is designed to remind all Americans of the sacrifices made by military servicemembers, there’s at least one group that wouldn’t have needed that reminder: the War Brides of World War II, women who had married U.S. military personnel while those men had been stationed overseas. Those couples were separated by the war’s end but in 1945 the U.S. responded to their plight by passing the [War Brides Act](http://library.uwb.edu/static/USimmigration/59%20stat%20659.pdf), which opened up a three-year period during which the non-American spouses and children of those who served during World War II could legally immigrate to the United States. More than 100,000 women and children made that trip. One of the ways they did so was on board the Queen Mary, which transported 12,886 G.I. brides and children to the U.S. and 10,000 to Canada, according to Cunard, the ship’s operator. Though the trip lasted only a few days and the war had ended, it was still a daunting voyage for a ship full of people who had decided to leave their homelands to live with men whose peacetime lives were still a mystery. One of the ways they dealt with that situation was by contributing to and reading an on-board newspaper, _Wives Aweigh_, a copy of which can be read here. (View in “full screen” mode to read.) Throughout the war, ships had published daily programs keeping passengers up to date on events on board as well as the news they might otherwise miss, says Cunard historian Michael Gallagher, and _Wives Aweigh_ would have been a natural extension of that practice, with ship employees and war brides working together to create the content. With world news, facts about the ship, public service announcements, cooking tips, poetry and information about the places to which the brides were bound, the newsletter was published daily during the voyage. “It was similar to the daily program concept,” Gallagher says, “but it was also developed to prepare these people for their new lives.” This particular copy was preserved by British bride June Allen. An 18-year-old young mother when she made the voyage alongside about 1,700 other brides, she is now a resident of Anderson, Ind., with seven great-grandchildren. After her husband passed away in 2012, she tells TIME, she decided to go through some of the boxes of papers in their house. Upon opening one of the mysterious boxes, she found memorabilia from her time on the Queen Mary: the tags she and her eldest son wore during the trip, menus from shipboard meals, paperwork from the journey and copies of _Wives Aweigh_. “I’d saved it all those years and I’d forgot I even owned it,” she says. “I figured that if my children found the box one day they would just throw it out, it wouldn’t mean anything to them, so that’s when I called the Queen Mary and said I wanted to donate it to their museum.” Allen decided to put seeing the Queen Mary again on her “bucket list” and has since visited the ship in California several times. This week, however, she’s doing one better: she’s currently crossing the Atlantic once again, this time on board the Queen Mary 2.  June Allen and her son (center). Courtesy of Cunard/Queen Mary **_Read more about the return to civilian service for transportation including the Queen Mary, here in the TIME Vault:_** [Just Pack Your Bag, But…](http://time.com/vault/issue/1946-04-01/page/81/) **_Read more about Veterans Day:_** [How Veterans Day Came to Be](http://time.com/3572766/veterans-day-history/)  Wives Aweigh Newsletter, February 5, 1946. Courtesy of June Allen and Cunard/Queen Mary  Wives Aweigh Newsletter, February 5, 1946. Courtesy of June Allen and Cunard/Queen Mary  Wives Aweigh Newsletter, February 5, 1946. Courtesy of June Allen and Cunard/Queen Mary  Wives Aweigh Newsletter, February 5, 1946. Courtesy of June Allen and Cunard/Queen Mary ## Transcript >> That soldier in that picture I think really does start to stand out as an emblem of the American military. >> The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty- loving people everywhere march with you. >> Robert Capa was probably the most famous war photographer in the 20th century. D- Day was the moment where the American soldiers turned the tide of World War II and it was at that moment when the Allied forces started to gain the upper hand against the Germans. So Capa on the very early morning of the 6th was part of they believe the second wave, second group of the first wave going in onto Omaha beach. >> The darkness will be rent by noise and flame. Men's souls will be shaken with the violent says of war. >> It was a very chaotic day. The winds were terrible. There was mass confusion, soldiers were trying to meet each other on the beach, gonna meet with commanders, missed each other because of the winds and the waves were pushing people into different directions. So Capa was shooting with his camera through all of this. In testimony from other people and in leathers it was terrifying, very scary, dodging bullets like all the rest of the soldiers as they were getting up on the beach. Another soldier came up to help the soldier that was wounded, and the two of them pulled the soldier right up on the beach, and I think during that time or right before he took several photographs or at least one photograph and that one photograph was probably now the most iconic photograph of the landing and it sort of epitomizes what we know of the bravery of the men who were there. He's now been identified as Huston Riley who now lives in Portland, Oregon near Portland and Huston remembers being pulled up on the beach and he said look up and he saw one soldier and a man with a press insignia and he thought to himself what is that man doing on the beach. I think it's a classic Capa photograph in the sense that it captures so much of the environment in which he was photographing. You see a bit of the water and the waves coming up around the soldier. You see that soldier's face or just the barest glimpse of the outline of his profile to get a sense of the human component of the story which is really what Capa did so tremendously in so many of the situations he photographed. Capa photographed for about an hour and a half I believe on the beach. There was a soldier assigned to pick up all the film from the beach and put into a pack and then transport it back to the ships and that pack was lost. So the only film that survived were actually the films that weren't picked up the personnel who was assigned to that including Capa's. In the excitement to get the film prepared for exposure the heat went up and the drawing rack and the emulsion literally melted off the plastic film. So what was left were these 11 images of just the invasion moment of the soldiers climbing up on the beach. >> Almighty God, our sons, the pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, the struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion and our civilization. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4099810/wives-aweigh-veterans-day/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4099810/wives-aweigh-veterans-day/"},"headline":"See a Newspaper Written for WWII Brides on Their Way to a New Home","datePublished":"2015-11-11T13:00:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:41:42.836Z","description":"On Veterans Day, a look back at another group touched by conflict: the war brides of World War II","url":"https://time.com/4099810/wives-aweigh-veterans-day/","keywords":["Media","photography","conflict","Holidays","Veterans Day"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc512a13447c7887e/69886fa55f570f3d4bb1e2d1/151104-war-brides.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lily Rothman","jobTitle":"Rothman is managing editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/"}],"articleSection":"History","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc512a13447c7887e/69886fa55f570f3d4bb1e2d1/151104-war-brides.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"June Allen and her son (center).","caption":"June Allen and her son (center).","creditText":"Courtesy of June Allen","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/history/","name":"History"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4099810/wives-aweigh-veterans-day/","name":"See a Newspaper Written for WWII Brides on Their Way to a New Home"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"The Iconic Photo of D-Day","description":"Robert Capa's LIFE photos of the invasion of Normandy -- and a lone soldier near the beach -- are icons of WWII, and were almost destroyed","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/8CmPFMLD/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2011-02-10T18:16:21.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/8CmPFMLD.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4099810/wives-aweigh-veterans-day/","duration":"PT4M56S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4099810/wives-aweigh-veterans-day/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```