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Three months before Pearl Harbor, Joseph Daino enlists in the U.S. Army Air Corps. Then, after December 7, 1941, he knows that he’ll be sent into World War II. However, he must first get through flight training, which was no small feat—after all, more pilots died on United States soil than they did overseas.

He boards a ship to Burma, and when he arrives, he is greeted by some of the most dangerous terrain a pilot could fly—the Himalayan mountains rising 20,000 feet into the sky, unpredictable weather patterns, and an expanse of endless jungle. But “flying the hump,” as it was called, proved vital in providing the Chinese army with supplies in the fight to prevent Japan’s advancement through the Far East and Pacific.

In One Hell of a Ride, Daino relives his entire war experience. From flight school to flying the hump, he focuses on the many aspects that surround war and uses a steady supply of captivating anecdotes to relate them. Regardless of all that the war involves, flying always comes first for Daino—and he makes that clear to all of those around him. Written sixty years later, Captain Joseph F. Daino’s memoir will make it seem as if he never left the cockpit.

Captain Joseph F. Daino flew 95 total missions during World War II. He received the Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal, World War II Victory Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, and China War Memorial Bridge Medal.