Two years ago, General Yeager and I met a couple, about 86 at the time, who had been having a tryst in a barn on March 5, 1944 before they were married.
Here she is in 1940’s. She looks just the same 70 years later:
WW II – saw Gen Yeager’s plane crashing
The husband was avoiding being conscripted by the Germans so they had to meet clandestinely. In fact, that day of the tryst, the Germans had come to his parents’ house looking for him. They said he didn’t know where he was and then got word to him not to come back. He called her his lucky charm.
WWII – male lover who saw Yeager’s P-51 coming down
They saw General Yeager’s plane, after he and it were shot down, as, pilotless, in pieces, it raced to the ground.
So we were filming their story. We asked her if when the camera rolled, she would tell this story.
She hesitated. She really didn’t want to let the world know that her husband and she had been fooling around before they were married.
I told her – ah but no, it’s a love story. You got married 3 months later (after D-Day) and are still together enjoying life and each other 66 years later.
To encourage her, I called General Yeager over and translated that she and her husband, before they were married were having a tryst which was interrupted by the plane careening to the ground near them.
Without skipping a beat, with that mischievous twinkle in his eye, CY said: Now, did you have the best view? Were you on the bottom?
When I translated, the woman giggled 
Only Gen Yeager could get away with that.
Hilarious.
c. GCYI Photos courtesy of the Bellocs