What a delightful tale of a young man's desire to fly and do his duty in WW II. The book describes in great detail his training at bases across Canada during winter. Flying in the training aircraft of the period was a very cold experience. However he livened it up with wonderful escapades off base.

The last portion of the memoir covers his training in England and the subsequent raids over occupied Europe. He makes these seem less hazardous than other memoirs I have recently read. But then his plane was never attacked by a German fighter and flak never seemed a serious danger on any of his missions. A very readable account of one young man's experiences in war. ( )