The Pilot from the Prairie

As a first-grader in a one-room school in Kansas in 1927, Edgar Allen could not muster the courage to ask his teacher for permission to miss school to attend his first air show. Seemingly a lifetime later, in 1948, the same reticence nearly kept him from speaking up and let his future wife from slip through his fingers. In the interim, he had fulfilled his dream of learning to fly. He had faced enemy fire, bad weather, equipment problems, and the the privations of wartime Britain to return his crew and himself safely from thirty bombing missions in World War II. In Pilot From The Prairie, Edgar Allen modestly tells his story in a series of episodes as uncomplicated as the Kansas farm boy this combat veteran never ceased to be.