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Britain's GI babies
Children born to British mothers and black GIs during World War Two often had difficult lives - many were taken away from their families.
During World War Two hundreds of thousands of US troops were posted to the United Kingdom and several thousand of those soldiers were African-American. But when children were born as a result of relationships between those black GIs and white British women, their babies often grew up in children's homes and went on to have difficult lives. Farhana Haider has been speaking to one of those children, Babs Gibson-Ward.
Photo: Hoinicote House children, c.1948
Credit: Lesley York
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