| Author: | Maurice Bird | ISBN: | 1230000240974 |
| Publisher: | Maurice Bird | Publication: | May 19, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Maurice Bird |
| ISBN: | 1230000240974 |
| Publisher: | Maurice Bird |
| Publication: | May 19, 2014 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
~~“Overpaid and over here” was a familiar term used in the nineteen forties and fifties. It of course referred to the American service personnel who were drafted to England to help fight in the Second World War in the forties and stayed on into the fifties. The letters U.S.A.F appeared everywhere, on the vehicles and on the tunics of the young handsome men.
The young men, members of The United States Air Force were loved by the girls, and hated by most of the local young males. The Englishmen felt threatened, and had every reason to be so. The Americans had a lot more money and those with their big imported motors would whisk the young females to the dances on the base or the clubs in some far off town. The young Englishman could not compete.
It came as no surprise therefore that many of the girls chose to be the bride of some dashing handsome American Airman. The girls, some of who were still teenagers, suddenly found their lives had change forever. Thinking they would find a husband someday and settle down in the local community, or at most in some town not a hundred miles from their birthplace, they now faced life in a new strange country.
A Great Send Off tells of one such bride who chose her “American GI.”
Centred round the small village of Spansley and the nearest town of Coleford, the story is told of young people growing up together and then many years later, working together.
It tells of a decision by the English bride and her American husband to buy a farm where she grew up, with view to becoming farmers. Nearing retirement age the new dream was for them to live as “Gentleman farmer and farmer’s Wife.” To leave the sunshine of Florida where they had lived for years, and set up home in one of the coldest counties in England, would be described by many of their friends as a crazy idea
As it turned out, their dream of being farmers did not work out. What followed though was even harder to imagine. Advice often given to people thinking of changing jobs or looking at setting up a business is ‘Stick with what you know.’
Considering the ex- American Airman had spent the last decades as a top Space Engineer with N.A.S.A it would be most unlikely that he would be able to stick with what he knew over in England, or would it?
10 – 9 – 8 – 7 – 6 – 5 – 4 – 3 – 2 – 1 -..............Read on!
~~“Overpaid and over here” was a familiar term used in the nineteen forties and fifties. It of course referred to the American service personnel who were drafted to England to help fight in the Second World War in the forties and stayed on into the fifties. The letters U.S.A.F appeared everywhere, on the vehicles and on the tunics of the young handsome men.
The young men, members of The United States Air Force were loved by the girls, and hated by most of the local young males. The Englishmen felt threatened, and had every reason to be so. The Americans had a lot more money and those with their big imported motors would whisk the young females to the dances on the base or the clubs in some far off town. The young Englishman could not compete.
It came as no surprise therefore that many of the girls chose to be the bride of some dashing handsome American Airman. The girls, some of who were still teenagers, suddenly found their lives had change forever. Thinking they would find a husband someday and settle down in the local community, or at most in some town not a hundred miles from their birthplace, they now faced life in a new strange country.
A Great Send Off tells of one such bride who chose her “American GI.”
Centred round the small village of Spansley and the nearest town of Coleford, the story is told of young people growing up together and then many years later, working together.
It tells of a decision by the English bride and her American husband to buy a farm where she grew up, with view to becoming farmers. Nearing retirement age the new dream was for them to live as “Gentleman farmer and farmer’s Wife.” To leave the sunshine of Florida where they had lived for years, and set up home in one of the coldest counties in England, would be described by many of their friends as a crazy idea
As it turned out, their dream of being farmers did not work out. What followed though was even harder to imagine. Advice often given to people thinking of changing jobs or looking at setting up a business is ‘Stick with what you know.’
Considering the ex- American Airman had spent the last decades as a top Space Engineer with N.A.S.A it would be most unlikely that he would be able to stick with what he knew over in England, or would it?
10 – 9 – 8 – 7 – 6 – 5 – 4 – 3 – 2 – 1 -..............Read on!
