Talk:The Wild Blue: The Novel of the U.S. Air Force

The genesis of The Wild Blue (talk in article)

The following text is verbatim as it was added to the article by User:Wboyne on 11 August 2009:

Walter J. Boyne, coauthor with Steve Thompson, wants to add the following: The genesis of The Wild Blue came about in the following manner: In early February, 1984, Steven L. Thompson invited me to join him in writing a non-fiction social history of the United States Air Force. Steve was born into, raised, and served in the Air Force, three of his novels had been published, and at the time, he was Vice President for Publications at the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, and Executive Editor of its magazine, AOPA Pilot. We got to be friends and colleagues when he asked me to write a column called 'The Boundary Layer' for AOPA Pilot, so I was intrigued by his proposal. But it soon became clear to both of us that a better means of conveying the mostly unheralded sacrifices of Air Force members and their families was a novel. We hoped to do it as an anthology, but our publisher convinced us to build it around the experiences of a 'cast' of people in widely different roles, from Air Force 'brats' to Pentagon players.”

Walter J. Boyne

Jacket photo is of a different book

The book jacket shown is wrong. It’s of a different book with a similar title. 2601:140:947F:7870:95FE:940A:7670:2C16 (talk) 15:42, 25 March 2023 (UTC)