Excerpt: I say, but am I fed up to the teeth with the blasted paper work that goes with this kind of a job! he groaned. Not at all like in the last mess we had with Jerry. A chap could fly every day, then, regardless of rank.

Robert Sidney Bowen, Jr. (1900, October 4 April 11, 1977) was a World War I aviator, newspaper journalist, magazine editor and author who was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and died of cancer in Honolulu, Hawaii, at the age of 76.[1] He is best known for his boys' series books written during World War II, the Dave Dawson War Adventure Series and the Red Randall Series. He also worked under the name R. Sidney Bowen and under the pseudonym James Robert Richard. (Wikipedia)