Philip Harkins

This is the story of Aviation Cadet Al Hudson, who became Second Lieutenant Al Hudson, pilot of a Flying Fortress. It is also the story of his fellow cadets and what happened to some of them. But most of all it is the story of thousands of American boys who went to camps like the one Al went to and learned to fly, as he did, getting to know their planes and their fellow members of the Air Forces, here and in England and over Germany." (training of bomber pilots in World War II)