Claire & Charlie: An Unlikely Wartime Love Story

Claire & Charlie: An Unlikely Wartime Love Story

How Immigration and Patriotism Shaped A Forgotten and Unknown Past

Born of immigrant parents just before World War II, the likelihood of their even meeting was a longshot at best. But an ocean apart, Claire St. Cyr and Charlie Watson had a three-year pen-pal relationship in wartime that later created a new family blend. She was the quiet French-Canadian farm girl, he the New York City wisecrack struggling to survive the harrowing and bloody Italian front in 1944-45.