"In I Always Wanted to Fly Wolfgang Samuel presents a book on a neglected subject, the U.S. Air Force men and women of the Cold War. These are the people who won the Cold War-not by themselves, obviously, but don"t ask me how it could have been done without them. Colonel Samuel is a ?yer, ?rst of all, but he is also a historian. In this book he concentrates on people. Through Samuel"s work, we learn how it was done and by whom." -Stephen E. Ambrose, author of Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944 to May 7, 1945 "I Always Wanted to Fly displays the clarity that comes from ?ying on the hot end of the Cold War and, as a consequence, tells us much about the sociopolitical evolution of our recent era as well as revealing how these Air Force missions were ?own. Any readers who have marveled at the last half-century"s magni?cent military aircraft and the supremely professional ?yers at their controls will be...