Presents the long-awaited biography of one of the US Navy's last surviving World War II aces, and one of the its most respected officers of any period. Following a typical American mid-western boyhood, Whitey Feightner, like so many of his generation, was in the vanguard of the huge group of young men thrust into World War II. His life story could serve as a model for any young aviator to follow.

Peter Mersky worked in the Washington, DC area as an artist for a government agency for 13 years. He then moved to Norfolk, VA, and worked as assistant editor and editor of Approach, the Navy and Marine Corps aviation safety magazine, for 16 years. He has been the book review editor for Naval Aviation News, the Navy's oldest periodical, since 1982, having reviewed more than 700 books in his regular column. His reviews also appear regularly in The Hook, Wings of Gold, and several commercial magazines.