An autobiographical account that follows the experiences of a small town Mississippi boy in the US Army Air Force during WWII. The narrative, often anecdotal, includes: qualifying for flying school in the US Army Air Corps after Pearl Harbor; training to become a pilot and to fly fighter aircraft; combat flying with one of the first three fighter groups escorting bombers in Europe during 1943 and 1944; returning to the United States to train Tuskegee fighter pilots to fly combat aircraft and tactics; the end of the war and its aftermath.