Prologue
Maps
Part 1. The Army knows best
A platoon of students : William H. Schneidewind
The man who wanted to fly : Joseph A. Kennedy
Part 2. Across the sea and over the Hump
Jack of all trades : Robert Gara Soulé
Dressed in Mainbocher : Eleanor Millican Frye
An athlete on the high seas : Francis Rae Surprenant
Talking logistics : Ike Minkovitz
Around the world : Louis C. Thompson
Part 3. Keep 'em rolling and flying
The man with a perfect record : George H. Keating
With a welder's torch for a weapon : James K. Neyland
One of five : Orin F. Buffington
Bearing witness : William A. Scott III
On foot, on horseback, or in a sampan : Jack T. Coyle
Defying the odds : Howard O. King
Part 4. Going home
Inside the secret city : Joyce Maddox Lunsford Kellam
Helping, helping, helping : Frank Cone
To see the world : Josephine Sanner Davis
A southern lady in the ranks : Marie Touart Stepp
Innovating and improvising : Randell A. Bostwick
An engineer among the headstones : Francis D. Peterson
Epilogue.