"I was flying with 1,000-pound bombs attached to my P-51. We were escorting B-29s sent to bomb steel mills in Korea. O…"

"I cleared the first magnolia, but then the main wing strut broke, and I came down in Mrs. Napier's rose bushes. It's …"

"For now, the seriousness of war had gradually come to me. Unless men like myself-thousands and millions of them-left …"

"There is an archaic regulation at West Point that says a cadet shall not own a horse, a dog, or a moustache. Had the …"

"Weekends became training manoeuvres conducted in total secrecy- a uniformed cadet could hardly ride a motorcycle open…"

"One Sunday, I was carrying out my training in a reveries, my imagination running wild as I gunned my machine into a t…"

"Colonel Richardson had everything safely under control long before I caught up with him, drenched to the waist after …"

"Why are such machines necessary, a schoolchild might well ask? I would answer that having such weapons ready is the b…"

"As these words are being written, I am in the process of moving back to Georgia. Whatever the merits of Horace Greele…"

"Anyway, my adventures had run out by 1982 when I made the worst mistake of my life by shutting myself away to work ni…"