His experiences as a dive-bomber pilot in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Flight training, Opa Locka Naval Air Station, Florida, 1941-42; meeting and courting his future wife; advanced flight training, Jacksonville Naval Air Station, Florida, 1942; decision to take his commission with the Marine Corps; assignment to VMSB-243, Santa Barbara Naval Air Station, California, 1942; character sketches of individual members of VMSB-243; his description of the characteristics of the SBD dive-bomber; anti-submarine patrols at Palmyra Island, 1943; assignment to Munda, New Georgia, October, 1943; bombing missions to Bougainville; ground living conditions; bombing missions to Rabaul from Piva II, Bougainville, 1944; move to Green Island and additional missions to Rabaul, 1944; comments about Japanese flak and antiaircraft fire; bombing missions to Rabaul from Emirau, 1944; his return to the States, November, 1944; postwar military career; his appointment as an inspector general for the Department of the Interior, 1981-85; personal relations with and comments about President Ronald Reagan.