General James A. Lynch was a lifelong military man, starting off as a private and retiring with the rank of Brigadier General. He spent 33 months with the 64th Fighter Squadron, The Black Scorpions, first as Adjutant and later as Executive Officer with Ground Command. As censor for the 64th Squadron he was responsible for collecting all the letters, reports, and pictures that the squad wasn’t supposed to keep for fear of them falling into enemy hands. After the war, with his two-fingered typing and the help of his Grandson Gregory Lynch Jr, he took all the information he had amassed and turned it into The Black Scorpions.
[O]ne of the most captivating WWII aviation memoirs thus far published. * ARGunners.com *