David R. McLaren grew up in Springfield, Illinois listening to 'Hop Harrigan' and 'Captain Midnight' during afternoon radio programs while Air National Guard Mustangs overflew his home. Thusly inspired, he then became a control tower operator in the United States Air Force, and then an enroute air traffic controller for the Federal Aviation Administration. In the meantime, he raised three children and attended Waubonsee Community College and Aurora University. Post retirement McLaren has written several magazine articles and a dozen aviation history books, concentrating on the Army Air Force and the USAF during World War II and the Korean War era. Three of these books have been co-written with Marty Isham, and this one in collaboration with Warren Thompson.
