Milton Caniff; Bolsheviks; students; soldiers; Christopher Columbus; Uncle Sam; Al Smith [Alfred E. Smith]; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Melvin A. Trayler; Joseph T. Robinson; Albert C. Ritchie; John N. Garner [John Nance Garner]; George White; Robert J. Bulkley
Chinese soldier; American soldiers; General Joseph W. Stilwell, Jr. ["Vinegar Joe" Stilwell]; General Clair L. Chennault; civilians; Uncle Sam; Steve Canyon; Good Willie (promotional character); Civil Air Patrol members; high school students; Revolutionary patriots; town crier; pioneer newspapermen; Ronald Reagan
Steve Canyon; General Camphill; college students; Adolf Hitler; Uncle Sam
Synopsis
Steve is required to give a lecture on patriotism to a skeptical university group. He surprises them with a "warts and all" rumination, and wins provisional acceptance.
Lieutenant P. G. Cochron; Milton Caniff [Milt Caniff]; Steve Canyon; U.S. Air Force personnel; Royal Canadian Air Force personnel; General Claire Chennault; Charles Franklin Kettering; Howard Robard Hughes [Howard Hughes]; Richard Evelyn Byrd [Admiral Byrd]; Reuben Hollis Fleet [Reuben Fleet]; Harry Frank Guggenheim; Clyde Vernon Cessna; Frank Borman; Edward Vernon Rickenbacker [Eddie Rickenbacker]; Amelia Earhart Putnam; William Edward Boeing; T. Claude Ryan; William Mitchell [Billy Mitchell]; Curtis Emerson LeMay; Anne Morrow Lindberg; Charles Edward Yeager [Chuck Yeager]; Neil Alden Armstrong [Neil Armstrong]
Milton Caniff [Milt Caniff]; Pat Ryan; Terry Lee; Connie; Clinton D. Vincent [Casey Vincent]; Frank Engli; Wilbur Wright; Orville Wright; Phil Cochran; Charles Joseph Russhon [Charlie Vanilla]; Fred Waring; Martha K. Schauer