It was a cold winter's evening, December 1944, in the north English countryside near RAF Camp Grafton Underwood. The newly arrived American flyboys were homesick, so the squadron captain decided to throw a party. The evening was filled with good food, good music, and good company. At the gathering that night was a tall, slender Iowan from the small northwest Iowa town of Lone Rock. His presence there would forever change the life of Jean Given Buchanan.