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The Millionaires' Unit is the storyline of your gilded generation of teenagers from the zenith of privilege: a Rockefeller, the son of the head of the Union Pacific Railroad, several who counted friends and relatives among presidents and statesmen of the day. They had it all and, remarkably by modern standards, they were prepared to risk it all to fight a distant war in France. Driven by the belief that their membership in the American elite required certain sacrifice, schooled in heroism and the type of leadership, they determined to be first in to the conflict, at the forefront before America's declaration that it would join the war. In the centre of the group was the Yale flying club, six of whom are the heroes of this book. They might share rivalries over girlfriends, jealousies over membership in Skull and Bones, and fierce ambition to be the most daring young man within the battlefields of France, where the casualties among flyers were chillingly high. One of the six would go on to become the principal architect of the American Air Force's first strategic bomber force. Others would bring home decorations and tales of high life experience in Paris. Some would not return, having made the best sacrifice of most in perhaps the last noble war. For readers of Flyboys , The Greatest Generation , or Flags OF YOUR Fathers , this patriotic, romantic, absorbing book is narrative military history of the greatest kind.
