Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Celia Crowson and family go on holiday to south coast of England, Fact2: Phyllis joins Auxiliary Territorial Service, Fact3: Celia gets posted to factory making aircraft components including Welsh room-mate Gwen Price and vain upper middle class, Fact4: Fred is killed in bombing raid over Germany, Fact5: working at factory and at mealtime shortly band plays Waiting at Church
Output (English): Celia Crowson Roc and her family go on holiday to the south coast of England in the summer of 1939. Soon afterwards the Second World War breaks out and Celias father Moore Marriott joins what was to become the Home Guard and her more confident sister Phyllis Joy Shelton joins the Auxiliary Territorial Service. Fearing her fathers disapproval if she moves away from home, Celia hesitates about joining up but eventually her callup papers arrive. Hoping to join the WAAF or one of the other services, Celia instead gets posted to a factory making aircraft components, where she meets her coworkers, including her Welsh roommate Gwen Price Megs Jenkins and the vain upper middle class Jennifer Knowles Anne Crawford. Knowles dislikes the work they have to do at the factory, causing friction with their supervisor Charlie Forbes Eric Portman which eventually blossoms into a verbally combative romance. A nearby RAF bomber station sends some of its men to a staff dance at the factory, during which Celia meets and falls in love with an equally shy young Scottish flight sergeant Fred Blake Gordon Jackson. Their relationship encounters a crisis when Fred refuses to tell Celia when he is sent out on his first mission, but soon afterwards they meet and make up, with Fred asking Celia to marry him. After the wedding they spend their honeymoon at the same south coast resort as the Crowsons went to in 1939, finding it much changed with minefields and barbed wire defending against the expected German invasion. Just after returning to the factory, they find furnished rooms nearby to set up house together, but then Fred is killed in a bombing raid over Germany. Celia receives the news while working at the factory and at a mealtime shortly afterwards the band plays Waiting at the Church, without realising it had been played at Celias wedding reception. About to break down, Celia is comforted by her fellow workers, as bombers from Freds squadron overfly the factory en route to another raid.