内容简介：
A U.S. Marine pilot whose family, reluctant to leave Germany, has been reduced to himself, his wife, and his two children is shipped to England. He is assigned to VMF-157 and his wing band is an old friend with whom he has shared most of his military career and who has become like a brother. They share the seconds of excitement that constitute air warfare in World War II as well as fill the hours of boredom together - and with a group of other military and civilian personnel that dream the same hope for the post-war results.