The story of a B-24D Liberator bomber which crashed on Trail Peak, at Philmont Scout Ranch, near Cimarron, New Mexico, on April 22, 1942. The wreckage is the world's most visited military, or civil, crash site in the world. The book follows the crew, especially the two young pilots, during their training and up to the final moments of the roundtrip training flight between Albuquerque and Kansas City.