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D-Day: The Tide Turns
The hosts noted that the title was a New York Times bestseller about wartime girls who crossed the Atlantic for love, describing how the first GIs arrived shortly after Pearl Harbor and how local kids flocked to the docks for candy and gum. They presented the book as an interesting historical account but did not give a strong endorsement.
Episode: 4. The Longest Night…
It was a New York Times bestseller, about the wartime girls who crossed the Atlantic for love. The first GIs started arriving two months after Pearl Harbor, and the ships were kitted out with bunks for all the soldiers.
Nuala Calvi is the author of the New York Times bestseller GI Brides, the wartime girls who crossed the Atlantic for love.
And as the ships came in, local kids would rush to the docks to meet them because they'd heard that the GIs had lots of candy and chewing gum.