In an action-packed was memoir and squadron history, ace fighter pilot Tom Blackburn describes exactly how he shoped a crew of over-eager hotshots into one of the highest scoring fighter squadrons of WWII and U.S. Navy history. In only 76 days of combat, Blackburn’s Jolly Rogers downed a record 154 enemy warplanes, and Blackburn himself emerged as one of VF-17’s leading aces with 11 aerial combat victories to his credit.