Flying Angels by Danielle Steel

Author:Danielle Steel [Steel, Danielle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2021-11-23T00:00:00+00:00

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A week later, after their brief transition class to introduce them to the rules, traditions, and expectations of the RAF, the American nurses were assigned to fly on transports with their British counterparts, at least for a few missions, until they felt comfortable taking charge of a flight on their own.

Louise went to work at the hospital, caring for men of color in the British army, and she spent three days a week with the German POWs. She didn’t like it, but found that several of them were officers and spoke fluent English. And she found their conversations interesting and intelligent while she dressed their wounds. She didn’t like what they stood for or what their countrymen were doing, but she found that many of them were very content to spend the rest of the war in England and to be relieved of the miseries and hardships of war, which existed on their side too. She was eager to start flying like the other nurses, but the brief detour wasn’t as unpleasant as she had feared.

She told Emma about it one night, and Emma warned her, “Now don’t go falling for a German. You could never take him home. And they’re still Nazis, however educated and charming they are.” Louise had had a conversation with an officer only that day about Goethe and Thomas Mann. She couldn’t imagine having that same conversation with any American soldier she knew, Black or white. The German POWs, particularly the officers, seemed very intellectual and intelligent. It was a refreshing change, but she knew Emma was right, and getting too friendly with any of them was a bad idea. She missed the kind of cultural exchanges she’d had with her parents growing up, but that would just have to wait until she got home.

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