aircraft gunners. The pilot bailed out and lived. After the  war, the pilot and the searchlight operator met by chance on a  streetcar, and, neither knowing who the other was, fell in love and  married. Only several years later did they discover their wartime  connection. Upon hearing this romantic and ironic story, producer  Stanislav Arkhipov (qv) decided to have this fictionalized account  made to mark the 2005 60th