'When we were in uniform, it was open sesame.'
Larry Golding who lied about his age to join the Navy at sixteen.

'It was passion, sheer, animal passion, and it was fantastic.'
Enid Grimshaw, who had been determined to keep her virginity despite all wartime temptations, but who finally lost it to a young Canadian airman whose surname she didn't know in a basement in London during a 'doodlebug' raid in 1944.

'I have lost much by leaving you. Nevertheless I have no regrets. It was my duty to leave and it was also God's wish. Goodbye my darling. Forget me, my love, forget the happy moments which we experienced together, forget everything.'
Jean Cornet a brave Belgian soldier parachuted into occupied France, in the last letter he wrote to his 15-year old fiancée Marjory Ray (later Lewis) on the eve of his execution.

'All the married men were missing their oats while they were away at sea, and they were only too pleased to have a 'friend' to help them out.'
Terry Gardener, a gay cabaret performer who spent the war years in the Navy

'It was love at first sight as far as I was concerned. He had a lovely soft voice. I'd never really been interested in men. My one passion was dancing. I know it sounds very sentimental and romantic but the first dance I danced with him, they were playing Irving Berlin's song with the words 'I'll be loving you always. Not just for an hour, not just for a day, not just for a year, but always'. And it was so prophetic because I never really have stopped loving him.'
Phyllis Roller (née Welfare) on her meeting with Ken, a Canadian soldier.

'The first time I saw Tom, there was an immediate attraction. Part of it was his uniform and part was his accent. I'd only ever heard that accent in cinemas and it was like meeting a film star which was wonderful. And he was very gentlemanly...you felt cared for, it was wonderful to be cared for like that. I knew we were getting involved and I kept reminding him that he was a cousin but it didn't make any difference.'
Wynn Brook (née Loughan) whose Catholic family were opposed to her wartime romance with her close relation.

'One night there was a really bad raid and the whole shelter was shaking, and I thought 'Ah well! The opposite of death is life so I might as well go and get myself devirginised!'.'
Joan Wyndham who lost her virginity as 17-year old girl in Chelsea during the blitz - and who went on to have many sexual adventures.

'We went down to the waterfront and there was this old ruined house and we had sex on the stairs - they were all broken.'
Dolly Edwards who had privately 'married' Willi Joanknecht, a German soldier in a deserted chapel in occupied Guernsey.

'I knew she would be raped if we left her with the Russians and she'd saved my life so I thought I'd help her like she'd helped me so I thought I'd marry her and then she'd be all right.'
Donald Meese on the German girl, Marie, who helped him escape from a POW camp.

'I loved him very much, I loved his accent, I loved the way he treated me. So my heart ruled my head and I took this very big step, this dangerous step, that I'd have his baby.'
Laura Clark who had embarked on a clandestine affair with Willy Forst, a German POW.