Contents

Author’s Note

Part I Warm-ups

1. The Country Mouse

2. The Buck Rogers Diving Death Ride

3. When Trouble Is Your Saving Grace

4. General Summons

5. The Girl with the Red Umbrella

6. The Price of a Moonlight Moment

7. Under an Arctic Rainbow

8. The Hero’s Road

9. The Man Without a Place

Part II New Guinea

10. When Everyone Turned a Screw

11. Mission Over Maggot Beach

12. The Veterans of Nomonhan

13. The Man with the Broken Back

14. The Hero Makers

Part III Contenders

15. The Last Bottle of Yellowstone

16. Where Everything’s Trying to Kill You

17. “Rhumba Cardi”

18. Duckbutt’s Groove

19. The Innocent Killers

20. Return of the Outcast

21. The Jug Driver

22. Rebels in Thunderbolts

23. The New Guy

24. The Original Freelancer

25. The Warrior’s Path

26. Four Days in October

27. The Battering of the Pudgys

28. The Race over Rabaul

29. The Relentless Rogue

30. The Ignored One

31. Off the Rails

32. Whitehead’s Flying Circus

33. Walking with the Beast

34. The Casualties

35. Longer-than-Long Legs

36. The Two Macs

37. The Battlefield Tourist

38. The Killing Tourist

39. Return to the St. Francis

41. “Whatever I Am, I Belong to You.”

42. Lost Perspective

43. Getting Three for Mac

44. We Shall Always Return to Each Other

Acknowledgments

Bibliography and Source Notes