"Millard Harmon is the most important airman people don't know. A flyer through and through, it fell to him alone among senior pilots in World War II to command a large Army organization on the fighting front.

He remains the shining light for air forces and airmen searching for a command perch of combined and joint operations, if only they'd look to Robert Novotny's fast-paced, insightful, ground-breaking book. "Dr.

Thomas A. Hughes, Professor of Military History, USAF School of Advanced Air & Space StudiesAuthor of "Overlord: General Pete Quesada and the Triumph of Tactical Air Power in World War II" & "Admiral Bill Halsey: A Naval Life""Millard Harmon should stand with Billy Mitchell and Hap Arnold as a founding father of the USAF.

On the cusp of victory in World War II, Harmon's plane disappeared over the Pacific, and history largely forgot him. Novotny's first-rate biography rights this wrong.

"Dr. Richard R.

Muller, Professor of Military History, USAF School of Advanced Air & Space StudiesAuthor of "The German Air War in Russia" & "The Luftwaffe Over Germany: Defense of the Reich". .