Eyes in the Florida Skies

Nineteen-year-old Ric Lawrence had one dream: to fly off aircraft carriers for the Navy. His carefully mapped out plan of marrying his college girlfriend after completing Officer Candidate School in Pensacola runs into some major turbulence and a need to course correct.

Meanwhile, barnstormer Lila Palmer is not content to be grounded after the attack on Pearl Harbor. She joins the newly formed Civil Air Patrol and in March 1942, signs on to a newly opened coastal patrol base, though she is not permitted to fly this mission. When her estranged Merchant Marine husband is injured in a U-boat attack, they are reunited, and Lila is forced to reconsider what is most important to her.

Inspired by the oral history of an Ohio Coastal Patrol pilot, Ric and Lila face new challenges and a shared cause of defending the home shores.