Of Love and War: Pacific Brides of World War II

2025/02/12 by James Keating · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #African history and culture studies #Asian American and Pacific Histories #Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

paper · doi:10.1080/03086534.2025.2462627

openalex publication_date 2025/02/12 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/14

Abstract

During the Second World War, almost two million American troops deployed to the southern Pacific. Of these, 140,000 ‘passed through’ (p. 1) the South Pacific Command, an administrative unit encompa...

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