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To research the play, Houston traveled back to Kansas, where she and her mother interviewed dozens of Japanese war brides.

Some soldiers married Asian women and brought them home as war brides, while others primarily viewed Asian women as sexual objects.

He left for the United States that December, and she followed a few months later on a Red Cross ship ferrying hundreds of Italian war brides.

The following May, Nancy joined 2,000 “war brides” on the Queen Mary, headed to America.

Her ship, full of war brides, zig-zagged across the Atlantic to evade U-boats.