Rent The Millionaires' Unit: The Aristocratic Flyboys Who Fought the Great War and Invented American Air Power

Synopsis

In this fascinating yet little-known chapter of World War I history, journalist Marc Wortman provides a group portrait of young men of privilege--with names like Rockefeller and Morgan--who served in the U.S. Navy Air Reserve, flying dangerous missions over France. Wortman focuses on six of them, all from Yale University, who were driven by a sincere sense of service and by a search for adventure, and he traces their sometimes glamorous adventures on land and conveys how they were enthralled by the new experience of flight. He tells, too, of the realities of combat, and recounts how some returned home to assume lives of leadership while others made the ultimate sacrifice.

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