The Education of a Fighter PilotThe Education of a Fighter Pilot is a personal biography written by Austin L. Toss Olsen that covers nearly four years of his life, ages 17 to 20, during which he trained to be a fighter pilot in World War II and shot down five Japanese airplanes. Olsen was on a team of five fliers replacement pilots sent out to the Pacific. The five saw combat; two perished, one was shot down and became a prisoner of war, and Toss and a fellow pilot completed their