War bride

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War bride is a term used in reference to wartime marriages, especially - but not exclusively - during World War I and World War II.

Wartime marriages occur in all places where serviceman find themselves. For example, it is estimated that there are "... 15,000 Australian women who married American servicemen based Down Under during World War II and moved to the US to be with their husbands"[1].

Allied servicemen also married many women in other countries where they were stationed at the end of the war, including France, Germany, Philippines, and Japan. This also occurred in Korea and Vietnam with the later wars in those countries involving U.S. troops.

There is at least one case where the Civil War resulted in a soldier marrying someone from further away than would have happened without that war. An example was a soldier from what is now West Virginia marrying a bride from Culpeper.