Flying rescue missions is part of George Young's job, and he
accepts the risks of a night flight through a blizzard to a remote
Canadian village, despite a finicky engine. Although dicey, the
long journey provides George with time to reminisce:
The lure of flight to a 17-year-old boy, proud to have earned
his pilot's license. The exciting, terrifying disruption of World
War II to everything he's known. Insane flying missions in the
Aleutians, where less than ten percent of the weather is fit for
aircraft or airmen. A suicide sortie after intelligence on a
prototype Japanese bomber with a range that threatens US soil. The
bittersweet success of a guerilla movement in the Philippine
jungles. Dynamic pilots who taught George how to survive, whose
dedication to duty cost them their lives. And a patchwork love,
never fully realized, always just out of reach.
As he wrestles his aircraft and the storm on this errand of
mercy, George also wrestles with eternal questions of destiny. What
is his purpose, that he should live and others die? Is he doomed to
drift, his heart hardening as he struggles to survive in civilian
life even more than he did during the war?
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