Beautiful Vintage Photographs of Love in Wartime

A US Soldier and local girl sharing a chocolate bar and cigarettes, 1940s. boredpanda

A soldier is welcomed home at Long Beach Airport, 1945. boredpanda

An American GI and his girlfriend holding each other while on a date, 1940’s. boredpanda

An American soldier and a French woman kissing each other in a picture that appeared on the cover of Life Magazine, 1944. boredpanda

Man kisses his wife after coming back from war, 1940s. boredpanda

Saying goodbye to the departing troops in Penn Station, April, 1943. boredpanda

Soldier kissing a red cross nurse, 1945. boredpanda

A Women’s Army Corp member kissing her husband, upon discharge. January 1, 1945. boredpanda

An American soldier with an English girl in Hyde Park, 1945. boredpanda

A couple kissing in a pub as Europe celebrates the end of World War II, London, 1945. boredpanda

A Russian woman cries as she is united with a soldier returning after the war, 1945. boredpanda

A farewell kiss before departing for the Front, between 1940-1945. boredpanda

A woman kissing her fiance under the mistletoe, on board the HMS Wakeful at Portsmouth, 1955. boredpanda

A couple celebrating V-E day on May 8, 1945. boredpanda

Evacuated French troops relax on an English beach. boredpanda

Actress Martha O’Driscoll kisses a soldier goodbye in Los Angeles, 1941. boredpanda

Hyde Park’s walking paths were filled with strolling couples, 1945. boredpanda

Friends looking on as a soldier gives his girlfriend a goodbye kiss before leaving Waterloo Station, London 1939. boredpanda

A British soldier gives one last kiss to his girlfriend as his detachment leaves for England as they evacuate Germany. Konigstein, Germany, September 1929. boredpanda

An American soldier leans over the side of an Army Vehicle as he kisses a French woman on a bicycle during the Liberation of Paris, 1944. boredpanda

Three couples posing for a picture, 1940s. boredpanda

A last kiss, Toronto, 1914. boredpanda

A soldier and his girlfriend, Texas, USA, 1941. boredpanda

Husbands kissing their wives as upon their return home from war, 1940s. boredpanda

A couple laughing in a park, California, 1943. boredpanda

A soldier is greeted wtih a kiss from his wife as he comes home from France on Christmas. boredpanda

A kiss on V-E Day, 1945. boredpanda

A couple in Penn Station sharing one last kiss before he ships off to war, 1943. boredpanda

An English ATS and a GI in the grass in Hyde Park, 1945. boredpanda