A giant in American journalism in the vanguard of "The Greatest Generation" reveals his World War II experiences in this National Geographic book.

Foreword by Tom Brokaw -- Map : Walter Cronkite's World War II assignments -- Character key -- Introduction by Walter Cronkite IV -- A pretty personal matter -- The writing Sixty-Ninth -- The youthful dean of American air-war writers -- Invasion jitters -- Once this war is over -- Epilogue by Maurice Isserman -- Afterword by Walter Cronkite IV -- Time line.