A World To Conquer: Ernest A. McKay

On April 6, 1924, eight courageous young Army airmen too off on a 26,000 mile journey into the record books. Three years before Lindbergh flew from New York to Paris, they set out from Seattle in four open-cockpit bi-planes, determined to circle the globe - and they did it. They were battered by blizzards and typhoons, lost in sandstorms and blinding fog and had even given up two of their number for dead. Here is the epic story of the first around-the-world flight.