Love In Wartime Was The Only Thing That Kept The World Together (20 Pics)
Put on the soundtrack from Band of Brothers and let us take you on a journey back to more turbulent times. Before the heartbreaking moments on battlefields across the world, there were these heartwarming moments of love and passion, when women sent their men to the uncertainties of war.
Here you’ll see twenty wartime pictures of emotional goodbyes and joyful greetings of loved ones coming back from war. Just prepare your paper tissues…
(h/t: boredpanda )
#1 Korean War Goodbye Kiss, Los Angeles, Sept. 6, 1950
#2 American Soldiers Getting Last Kiss On Ship Before Deployment To Egypt, 1963
#3 A Sailor Kissing A Nurse In New York’s Times Square. This Iconic Photo Symbolizes The End Of World War II, 1945
#4 A Young Woman Lifts Her Feet While Embracing And Kissing A Uniformed Us Soldier At The Train Station, Connecticut, 1945
#5 Farewell To Departing Troops At New York’s Penn Station, April 1943
#6 A Woman Leans Over The Railing To Kiss A British Soldier Returning From World War II, London, 1940
#7 Jean Moore Kneels And Kisses Her Fiancé, Wheelchair-Bound World War II Veteran Ralph Neppel, 1945
#8 Saying Goodbye At The Train Station Before Departing To WWII
#9 A Soldier Comes Home From War, 1940s
#10 Soldiers Departing For Egypt Lean Out Of Their Windows To Kiss Their Loved Ones Goodbye, 1935
#11 American Soldier Kissing His English Girlfriend On Lawn In Hyde Park, 1945
#12 Coffee Served On Porch Of Ante-Bellum Mansion, At Party For Cadets From Local Army Flying School, Mississippi, US, 1943
#13 English Soldiers Saying Goodbye To Their Wives, Getting Ready To Go To Egypt, 1937
#14 Farewell To Departing Troops At New York’s Penn Station, April 1943
#15 US Soldier Tenderly Kissing His Girlfriend Goodbye Before Departing By Train, 1922
#16 Saying Farewell To Departing Troops At New York’s Penn Station, April 1943
#17 A Young Woman On Roller Skates And Her Soldier Honey, 1940s
#18 A Sailor Leans Over A Picket Fence And Lifts His Girlfriend Up For A Kiss, 1945
#19 An English ATS And Eighth Air Force Sergeant Enjoy A Blissful Kiss, 1945
#20 A British Soldier Whispers Into The Ear Of A Loved One As He Leaves For The Front, 1939
If you crave for more vintage photography, take a look at these photos of Japan before the wars .
Andrius
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