Margaret Mayhew

The seven courageous crewmen of the Lancaster bomber fly into the skies over enemy Germany almost every night, hoping they will survive the raid. On the ground the women who love them wait and hope too.

Juliet's mother dies leaving letters and photographs showing that Juliet's real father was an American bomber pilot. Now, forty years later, she sets out to trace him.

In 1943 a division of US Airmen was stationed in the village of King's Thorpe, to the delight of the young but the horror of the Brigadier. The Americans were hard to ignore but soon everyone - even the Brigadier - accepted them as 'Our Yanks'.

During the Berlin Air Lift an RAF officer from the British Sector meets, and falls in love with, a German woman who lives in the Russian sector, and is struggling to keep her family alive.

In June 1940, Louis Duval flees from France after its fall to the Nazis. He arrives in Dartmouth and lodges in a boarding house run by Barbara, a young widow. An injured naval officer is also staying there, and they become rivals for Barbara's love.