pettinger romance
Warmtoast:
Feel free to post my father's Obit and the Times article here. Its all in the public domain. I havn't said more about Dad's story, since the subject seems to have drifted a long way from the original aeronautical thread title! But just one more flavour: Dorothy occupied a cabin on the voyage out to Capetown with her sister and 2 other women. 2 days into the voyage a drunken seaman entered their cabin in the evening, and tried to get into bed with the sister. Dorothy, knowing that a couple of Army officers were in another cabin across the corridor, banged on their door for help, and my father, grabbing his service revolver, expelled the seaman in short order. Which is how they met. How romantic is that?