Boy at War

David W. Irvin, Jr. seemed destined to be a military man. On his eighth birthday, Irvin''s present from his father, a World War I aviator, was a 30-minute flight in a World War I single-engine biplane, a flight he said provided him with "the unbending impetus to be a flyer myself." That impetus led to a 30-plus-year career in the Army Air Corps and the United States Air Force.A Boy at War chronicl...