A young western North Carolina hillbilly preacher follows a heart-felt conviction that he must become a fighter pilot in World War I. To fight and kill is against his every, deeply held belief, but no amount of prayerful questioning produces any other answer.
He goes through Army Air Service training and on to France, convinced his God has a reason. He finds that reason in the war-torn skies over France. His best friend is a millionaire politician from Boston. This is a man who has convinced himself into flight training and the cockpit of a French made pursuit aircraft over the Western...