Pacific Airman is based on a US Army Air Forces bomber plane navigator's, Edward S. Goode, hand-written pocket journal of his time in the Pacific theater during World War II. He was a member of the 400th Bomber Squadron (“the Black Pirates”), part of the legendary 90th Bomb Group “the Jolly Rogers.” The journal, covering from 1943 to the end of the war in 1945, chronicles daily life and missions, noting difficult working conditions, air attacks, leave, and more.