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Article claims "... the almost half a million European women who had married American GIs.", citation: Page 3, Gault, Owen (September 2005). Operation Magic Carpet. Chatsworth: Challenge Publications. Retrieved 13 September 2009.
500,000 war brides seems an incredibly high number, and the linked "War Brides" article claims 60,000 - 70,000 women _and_ children, albeit without citation. Anyone with more knowledge than me care to take a look?
Liamwillco (
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03:51, 18 September 2012 (UTC)Liamwillco (talk) 3:40, 18 September 2012 (UTC)reply
The uncited figure can be removed per
WP:BURDEN, however the 1/2 million number is cited and should remain. See
WP:TRUTH. However if one source gives a lower total number one can use both citations and write say "60 thousand to 500 thousand
war brides" and ending the sentence with both references.--
RightCowLeftCoast (
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14:34, 15 October 2012 (UTC)reply
Additionally, there is another referenced statement at
War brides that states that 100k war brides cam from the United Kingdom, 150k-250k came from continental Europe, 15.5k from Australia, and 1.5k from New Zealand. So the 500k number does not seem out of place, and should remain.--
RightCowLeftCoast (
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14:40, 15 October 2012 (UTC)reply
Service points
I did a quick search on Wikipedia and could not find anything regarding the service point system which determined how quickly a service member could be sent back Stateside. Should this be included in this article, or created as a new article?
There is one instance with Filipino American soldiers with the
1st Filipino Infantry where some soldiers were not allowed to return to the States due to lacking said service points.
Seems to me that if you want to discuss the demobilization procedures after WWII, a new article under some title is required. Best of luck.
Paul, in Saudi (
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10:03, 11 June 2011 (UTC)reply
A lot of what I find is anecdotal stuff, that a system did exist, and it determined return to the States and Discharge. However, none of the searches that I found have talked about the system directly, or how points were accumulated/calculated.
John Campanelli (29 November 2010).
"World War II veteran Jack Kleinman finds lots to laugh about". The Plain Dealer. Retrieved 11 June 2011. He was awarded a Purple Heart, which should have given him enough service points for a discharge. But a paperwork snafu meant he had to stay another six months in Germany, where he served as a military police officer in Regensburg after the Nazis surrendered.
Lance Q. Zedric.
"The Warrior Spirit: Native Americans of the Alamo Scouts". The Alamo Scouts Association. Retrieved 11 June 2011. After the war those Scouts with enough service points went home, while others returned to their parent units or accompanied Sixth Army to Kyoto, Japan, and joined the 6th Ranger Battalion for rations and quarters.
Julian Philips.
"A Story from the European Front". The Heights Remembers. Rice University. Retrieved 11 June 2011. When World War II came to a close in 1945, Mr. Philips had garnered more than enough service points to return home and "was on the first ship to come back to the States."
Furthermore a similar system appears to be in place during the Korean War.
Bullough, Vern L. (2004). Sentz, Lilli (ed.).
American Nursing: A Biographical Dictionary, Volume 3. New York, New York: Springer Publishing Company. p. 129.
ISBN9780826111470. Retrieved 11 June 2011. After earning enough service points to depart Korea during her 7-month combat tour, Hays transferred to Tokyo Army Hospital and spent a year there as a management nurse in the comptroller's office.
Looking at the
USS Washington (BB-56) article, it appears she was decommissioned shortly after that one trip. Speculating, it was probably a matter of economics. Operating a BB as a troop transport must have been horribly inefficient, just based on the weight of armor being hauled around for no purpose.--
J Clear (
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12:53, 25 August 2013 (UTC)reply
Single source tag
The article has been tagged for mostly using references to a single source. That is unfortunate but true, I see. There are some online, NPOV and RS sources available that I am going to incorporate. If I can manage to source the existing content or additional content to two or three other sources, I will remove the tag.
I also found a great, unrestricted use (i.e. public domain) photograph from the U.S. government which I will try to include in the article.--
FeralOink (
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11:56, 3 November 2023 (UTC)reply