A BOOK THAT NEEDED TO BE WRITTEN WHILE THE BEST MAN TO WRITE IT STILL COULD.- BOOKLISTTHE RIVERTING FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT OF A PILOT, HIS CREW, AND HIS LEGENDARY AIRPLANE - WRITTEN WITH RON POWERS, COWRITER OF THE # 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FLAGS OF OUR FATHERSA powerful chronicle of loyalty, love, and heroism under fire, this is the unforgettable memoir of a member of the Greatest Generation who fought in Americas greatest battles-and of the war one man waged both in and out of the skies. -High-spirited Robert Morgan was transformed from a fast-living, privileged playboy who grew up hobnobbing with the Vanderbilts into a steel-nerved pilot forged in the cauldron of World War IIs most dangerous and desperate aerial encounters. -This is the triumphant tale of that transformation-and of the plane and crew that never failed to bring him back home.AS THE MOST CELEBRATED AMERICAN BOMBER PILOT OF WORLD WAR II, ROBERT MORGAN HAS A REMARKABLE STORY TO TELL, AND HE TELLS IT CANDINLY AND LUCIDLY IN AMAZINGLY RECALLED DETAIL.- BRIG. GEN. HENRY C. HUGLIN, USAF, RET.