Foster, Elizabeth "I'll See You Again"

Women’s wartime “weepie.” Gerry Porter, a cool, detached journalist meets British naval officer Toby Fentress while ashore waiting for her England-bound convoy to sail. Gerry and Toby naturally fall in love. Toby’s vessel, a destroyer, turns out to be one of the escort vessels guarding Gerry’s convoy, and it is attacked and sunk literally in front of Gerry one cold night in mid-Atlantic. Despite all appearances that there have been no survivors, Gerry stalwartly haunts the Admiralty once she arrives in England in an attempt to locate Toby. A survivor, grievously wounded and now in hospital, is finally located, but he, too, claims that all officers and crew went down with the destroyer. In despair, Gerry returns to her rooms — only to find an exhausted Toby waiting there for her. Despite its mawkish overtones, the story does contain several effective paragraphs describing the middle-of-the-night mustering to the lifeboats that Gerry and others on her freighter endured the night that the Germans attacked their convoy.