My mom was a 16 year old girl living in Rome on June 4, 1944 when American troops, including my dad, entered the city. Two days later, she was reading about the Normandy landings when she met my dad (who was from Detroit and spoke Italian). A couple years later, he returned to marry her.
My mom was from Lucca and met my father when he was re-patriotating prisoners of war from the Italian camps.
He returned 5 years later to marry her. After his American fiancée died suddenly.