I just found my dad's marriage license from his second marriage in 1953, to my surprise, it showed that he had been married once before.
I don't know the name of his first wife, but the marriage was annulled in 1945. My half-brother, Gerald, was 7 yrs old in 1953 so that would put his birth about 1944/45.
Our fathers name - Norman Deckrosh, he was in the Navy at this time and stationed as an Armed Guard aboard merchant vessels out of New York, Norfolk and Boston (?).
I don't know if Gerald was born in the US or Europe.