Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nicoletta “Nicki” Fortuniti and her niece, Diane Hannum. During World War II, about 300,000 American service members fell in love ...

Nicoletta “Nicki” Fortuniti and her niece, Diane Hannum. During World War II, about 300,000 American service members fell in love and married women overseas. Even Licking County men were not immune to ...

Pino, Maria First Italian War Bride “Aimed to Please” When Maria Pino disembarked in Philadelphia as the first Italian War Bride in 1945, little did she know how her journey to America would differ ...

Dozens of foreign brides rejoined their discharged husbands in Erie after World War II. Families and organizations mustered ...