War and Love - Catalina (fm:romantic, 13527 words)

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'War and Love' ('Krieg und Liebe') is a successful series of erotic-historic short stories on Literotica's German language platform. Some of these stories have Anglo-American background, so I'm planning to translate them into English step-by-step.

I got the idea to create these short stories from Leo Tolstoy's novel 'War and Peace' and Theodor Fontane's novel 'Before the storm', two of my three favourite books. Love is the best 'medicine' to overcome the stress and worries of war, something we can see in many actual wars too.

Royal Air Force, United Kingdom, before and during WW II

I, Charles M. Watts, had inherited my passion for aviation in general and flying boats in special since I was a baby. My father had graduated as a mechanical engineer and had served the entire WW I period as flight and engine engineer in the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS), which had been established just before the war's beginning. He was deployed to Southampton Airfield and other location, had married my Southampton born mother during the war and was integrated in the newly established Royal Air Force at its incorporation on April 1st, 1918.

I was born on July 27th, 1917. My parents completed our family with two additional girls over the next few years. After the war's end my father switched to civil aviation because Southampton became the most important UK air base for flying boats. He established in partnership with a financial colleague his own company for service, maintenance and repair of flying boats and land-based aircrafts. His company grew slowly, but steadily, both at the small airport of Southampton as well as the flying boat terminals at the Channel harbour.

Since I joined school, it was the greatest excitement for me to escort my father into his company's workshops, inspecting the flying boats and their technology, becoming larger and more complex with every new model. All employees and mechanics in my father's company knew that I was able to ask detailed questions over hours. But almost all of them stayed patient and answered as good as it was possible. So it was no surprise for anybody that I had chosen my future job from a young age: I wanted to become a pilot.

Consequently, nobody was surprised that I chose after my graduation from King Edward VI.-Grammar-School in Southampton to join the RAF as a volunteer. All medical checks went well and I passed the tests with flying colours. My education as RAF-pilot and flying officer started in summer 1936.

After a training period of two years and a successful examination for my solo flight licence, I was promoted to pilot officer, the lowest officer's rank in the RAF. During a third training year, I learned to fly military aircrafts with two and four engines, followed by additional exams and a further promotion to Flying Officer. I became familiar with twin-engine, land-based bombers like 'Armstrong Whitworth Whitley' and 'Vickers Wellington' as well as twin-engine flying boats like the 'Consolidated PBY Catalina'. Especially the flying boats had been most fascinating for my, absolutely not surprising with my family background. My wing commander at school recognized this and arranged additional training on the brand-new four-engine flying boat 'Short S.25 Sunderland', the military sister model to the civilian flying boats of Imperial Airways. Finishing my three-year-education I was deployed to 210th Squadron as my first RAF-unit, which transferred me for the first time into the north of Scotland - Invergordon, located at the Moray Firth. This seaside loch at the North Sea coast in the Scottish Highlands was the second home of the Royal Navy's Home Fleet, added to the main Navy's war harbour at Scapa Flow on the Orkney Islands. Before the war began, these Navy harbours had been located almost outside the maximum range of German bombers but needed special protection against dangerous submarines. This transfer was the beginning of my six-years-service on RAF flying boats, patrolling the northern Atlantic up to the polar circle as well as the North Sea, protecting merchant ship convoys, hunting and fighting German submarines as well as several rescue and salvage operations.

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stuart writes Sun 18 May 2025 09:19:

A very beautiful story

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