Over and over for decades she waited and wrote to members of Congress – all the way through 2005. Until she finally decided to write her Congressman about the issue. His devoted wife waited and waited, for years and decades, waiting for news about her husband. Blurb: 'Allan Marchmont harmlessly but meaningfully flirts with the lovely young secretary in his publisher's office, hoping she might take a shine to him. Then she was informed by the War Department that they weren't even sure if the remains they had were Billie's. Billie Dowe Harris and Peggy Seale were married on September 22, 1943. 'War Widow' is tagged as christian, historical, contemporary. And then they told her he was in a different cemetery. To her horror, he was killed and buried in a cemetery in France. Then, the Army Air Forces informed his wife that he was alive and coming home. That's when the confusion started, a confusion that is much more circuitous than the regular fog of war.īillie Harris was listed as Missing in Action when he failed to come home from a mission over northern France that day in 1944. A fighter pilot, Billie Harris' last mission came in July 1944.

No one ever tried to tell her about her husband's fate.

Peggy Harris was married for six weeks when her husband went missing in action over France during World War II.

War Widow by Peggy Hansen