The War in the Air Book One Quotes

“The pilot was an old man. At that time I was nineteen or twenty, the pilot was 28 or 29, and that was very old. He didn’t take the wire out of his hat, his garrison hat—there was a wire that if you took it out and crunched it, you got that fifty-mission Air Corps look. He had transferred from the infantry, and was Southern, and I don’t think he realized that the Civil War was over.”
― Matthew A. Rozell, The War in the Air Book One

“Richard Gregory Alagna was born on November 16, 1925, and was attending college in Brooklyn, New York, when the news of Pearl Harbor reached him.”
― Matthew A. Rozell, The War in the Air Book One

“We all want to be free, but very few of us want to be brave. For all of us to be free, a few of us must be brave, and that is the history of America.”
― Matthew A. Rozell, The War in the Air Book One