Chauncey "Speed" Nelson always knew he wanted to be a pilot. Growing up on a farm, he spent his days dreaming of his plans to join the Royal Canadian Air Force, or to just buy a plane of his own if that didn't work out. But when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, Speed found his purpose in life-a bomber pilot for the U.S. Air Corps, flying for his country. Through his own journals, interviews with his contemporaries, and his daughter's journals, join Speed for the fear-and adventure-of a lifetime, from his first training days to twenty-eight of his forty terrifying and thrilling...