This contains the famous October 17 Sunday episode in which Corkin delivers the Congressionally-recognized "Flight Officer" speech. As it was WWII the action shifted to a more military style than Caniff originally presented in the strip. It is done in his comic realism style that marked Caniff apart in the medium. Aarmy nurse Taffy Tucker, survived a near-fatal dose of morphine but was left for dead. Found by Pat Ryan , Connie, Big Stoop and Texan marine Joss Goode, amnesiac Taffy is taken to a USN base where she falls afoul of Japanese spies.