Overpaid, over-sexed and over here. That was the widely used description of the American GIs stationed in Britain during World War II. Whatever the view of the first two, they were definitely over here and some were stationed in Valley, Anglesey.

BBC Radio Cymru recently broadcast Gwraig y GI, a fascinating programme telling the true story of a young girl from Anglesey who fell in love with an American GI. Recorded during a recent visit to Wales, 82-year-old, Madge Wing tells presenter Siân Pari Huws the story of her courtship and low-key wedding with its backdrop of air-raids, rations and fears.

When the war broke out, Madge was a young waitress in Bangor, having left her home in Bodorgan, Anglesey, to live with her sister following the death of their mother. It was a bleak time of food rations and the threat of attack. But it was also a time where many a romance flourished, as did the relationship between Madge and Bob Wing, an American GI.

Siân Pari Huws takes Madge to various places that featured in the early days of her romance. The old Drill Hall on Glyn Road where they had their first date, and Bangor train station where, under the bridge nearby, Bob asked her to marry him only a month after their first date.

"No chance, I thought. I didn't want to leave my country. But then, seven months later, we were getting married in Bangor," says Madge.

The wedding was delayed due to an air-raid and there were no family members present.

"They didn't want me to go to America, of course. And my father had said 'if you marry that Yank then you'll have made your bed and you have to lie in it... So that's what I did!"

But when it became time to join her husband in America, it was a different story, with family and friends flocking to Bodorgan station.

Madge tells the story of how she had to stay in a camp with 6,000 other GI brides before getting onboard a war ship and heading for America. Many of the girls changed their minds mid-Atlantic. But Madge's determination kept her going, and made her make something of her new life with Bob in America. She returned to school and qualified as a nutritionist, and had two daughters. But it wasn't easy.

"I was young," she says, "I didn't think I'd be homesick. I only thought, 'I'm going to America!' It was a big adventure. But do you know what? I was homesick for years. They (the family) thought I'd gone forever - America was the end of the earth in those days wasn't it?"

She has returned to Wales every year since being widowed nine years ago.