The Rogue Colonel: Exploits of "Daddy" Thyson and his Aircraft Testing Unit during World War II

The Rogue Colonel contains three World War II test pilots' first-hand recollections of flying with their infamous leader, Daddy Thyson. "Don't call me Colonel, call me Daddy"... that's what Colonel Thyson said to the dozen or so Army Air Corps test pilots who reported to him. Not exactly standard Army protocol, but nothing about Daddy Thyson was even close to orthodox. Thyson's style rubbed off on his men, producing a series of outlandish exploits that were recorded by three of them over fo...