Soar Like Eagles

            Carol becomes a Red Cross doughnut girl, serving GIs and boosting their morale. Convinced wartime romances are doomed to disappointment, she attempts to avoid entanglements. She transfers to France, away from Chet, the navigator who tempts her to throw caution to the wind.

            Chet’s father and brothers always belittled him. Now a squadron lead navigator, he longs to prove them wrong. He’s been offered a terrific job with PanAm after the war, but he’s also ditched in the North Sea, been called before a review, parachuted wounded into France, and been hidden by French civilians.

            Life in France is rugged for the Red Cross girls, and dangerous. Carol is surprised to cross paths with a wounded Chet. She and her crewmates help him get into the pipeline back to England. Then she is wounded by a stray shell. She returns to England to serve as hostess at an English manor house reserved for rest and relaxation for airmen.

            Chet is wounded a second time when a shell explodes in the nose of the B-17, where he works. He goes to an R&R “flak house,” and is reunited once again with Carol. The war can’t last much longer. They begin making plans for a future together.