The true story is revealed of how a group of wealthy, privileged young men answered their country's call in World War I by taking to the air as the first-ever United States Air Force, and how they laid the ground for the modern Air Force.

Marc Wortman is an award-winning freelance journalist and independent scholar. His articles and essays have appeared in many national magazines. He is the author of The Millionaires' Unit: The Aristocratic Flyboys Who Fought the Great War and Invented American Air Power.