Description

Both the tragedy and the triumph of the World War II air victory are captured in this gripping account of men and machines.
Close friends from Randolph Field Class 38-A re-live their experiences on the “Day of Infamy” at Pearl Harbor . . . on Doolittle’s famed Tokyo Raid . . in the “Cactus Air Force” at Guadalcanal. . . challenging Luftwaffe fighters over North Africa. . . over Germany with bomber streams and fighter escorts numbering in the thousands…in German hospitals fighting for life and in German prison camps plotting escape . . .over Hiroshima, to drop the first atomic bomb.

This graphic account of raw emotion and violence may in places offend the reader of delicate sensibilities; but for those seeking to capture the temper and spirit of those tragic and triumphant times