No Guts, No Glory: My Life Story

Dreams of taking to the air, serving the war effort, and discovering a world beyond the small family farm where he was raised led Clete Ernster first to Texas, where he was the youngest flight instructor in the Army Air Corps and where he met his beautiful wife, Kathleen, and then to China, where he flew dangerous missions over “The Hump.” Returning to Texas with numerous decorations for “service above and beyond,” he began a dedicated mission to become the proverbial American success story...