On 26 November 1948, Aviation Cadet Mike Kelly took off from a Texas airfield in a T-6 trainer monoplane and had his first taste of flying solo into the wild blue.
Tracing the US Air Force from its inception in 1948 to the advent of Star Wars, The Wild Blue follows the lives of six very different airmen at work, at play, and in love. Each joins the force for his own reasons. For Kelly the Air Force means escape from poverty. For Millard Washington it's the chance to prove he's as good as any white. And for 'Duke' Brown it's home from home - the military is the family business. From basic training to the Berlin air-lift, from Korea to Vietnam and the Middle East, these six men share a common bond that binds them irrevocably together.
More than just an authoritative tale of fighting men, The Wild Blue is a loving evocation of military life. It captures the joy and the agony of those women who support their men through separation and reunion, and of those women who forge successful but lonely careers of their own.
The Wild Blue is a panoramic novel of a call to glory that will appeal to every member of the family.