The Wild Blue: The Novel of the U.S. Air Force
Encyclopedia
The Wild Blue - The Novel of the U.S. Air Force, by historian
Walter J. Boyne
and Steven L. Thompson, was published in 1986.
This book follows the fictitious careers and lives of members of the United States Air Force. We get to follow them from their inception at Basic Training until they leave the Air Force. We also get to glimpse their personal lives. The book, while it is fiction, is a good glimpse at life in the military, particularly the Air Force.
Walter J. Boyne
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
Walter J. Boyne
Walter J. Boyne
Walter J. Boyne is a retired United States Air Force officer, combat veteran, aviation historian, and author of more than 50 books and over 1,000 magazine articles...
and Steven L. Thompson, was published in 1986.
This book follows the fictitious careers and lives of members of the United States Air Force. We get to follow them from their inception at Basic Training until they leave the Air Force. We also get to glimpse their personal lives. The book, while it is fiction, is a good glimpse at life in the military, particularly the Air Force.
From The Publisher
The Men and Women of THE WILD BLUE
Walter J. Boyne, coauthor with Steve Thompson, wants to add the following: The genesis of The Wild Blue came about in the following manner: In early February, 1984, Steven L. Thompson invited me to join him in writing a non-fiction social history of the United States Air Force. Steve was born into, raised, and served in the Air Force, three of his novels had been published, and at the time, he was Vice President for Publications at the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, and Executive Editor of its magazine, AOPA Pilot. We got to be friends and colleagues when he asked me to write a column called 'The Boundary Layer' for AOPA Pilot, so I was intrigued by his proposal. But it soon became clear to both of us that a better means of conveying the mostly unheralded sacrifices of Air Force members and their families was a novel. We hoped to do it as an anthology, but our publisher convinced us to build it around the experiences of a 'cast' of people in widely different roles, from Air Force 'brats' to Pentagon players.”Walter J. Boyne