War Brides 211-311
When a German airplane flew low
over Crowmarsh Priors one Saturday afternoon it sent mothers into a rush trying
to locate their children and bring them to safety. The English were in pursuit
of the German aircrafts trying to force it away from the village before they
shot it down. In it’s desperate attempt to escape it veered off towards some
storm clouds but didn’t make it, moments later it was spiraling to the ground
in an open valley. The whole town whooped and hollered their aircrafts as the
disappeared into the sky. Oliver Hammet who was part of the four members of the
village home guard hurried to gather their rifles and meet with the other
members. The four men sett out to locate the aircraft on foot. By the time
Oliver reached the valley where the aircraft had crashed he was the only one
left, the other three had to stop due to medical reasons that had stopped them
from joining the forces in the first place. Oliver the vicar of the village or
in other words the pastor of the church. He didn’t know if he could shoot a man
even if it was to save his own life! As he moved closer to the burning aircraft
he could smell something awful and could only guess what it was. There were two
figures laying on the ground 200 yards from the burning aircraft. The first man
was face down and obviously not alive, the second man however wasn’t so lucky. He
lay twisted on his back, there was a whole in his face where his nose had been,
and he was bleeding from his scalp as well. There was nothing Oliver could do
for him he’d been there for nearly two hours so he just sat down next to him
and prayed. The man wanted something out of his pocket Oliver removed a picture
of the pilots wife and helped him hold it until he died. The picture made him
think of several of the girls in the village. Many girls had fiancés that were
in the service and more than one were expecting children soon. Before the men
could come back and be married they were killed in the war leaving the girls to
be shamed by the village. He decided then and there he would ask all the
mothers to let their children be baptized in church despite to rules against
it. Meanwhile Frances was waiting to become twenty-one she had been offered the position in intelligence
but she was not of age yet to make the decision without parental consent and
her father said no. However, as soon as Frances turns twenty-one she joins anyway.
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