Young Sergeant Pilots, Stewart Wright and Tommy Miller, did not think much of their new squadron – and even less of their squadron leader. But, flying their outdated Brewster Buffalo aircraft into battle against efficient Japanese Zero fighters, they discovered just how wrong they were when the chips were down. They had found pride in […]
In 1936, when Spain erupted into a vicious civil war, the world watched through their magnifying glasses. With Hitler and Mussolini supporting the Nationalists and Stalin supporting the Republicans – the war seemed like a practice for the cataclysmic events that were to follow. British reporters, Pete Beckford and Owen Carver, were sent in to […]
Take a look at this list: dispatch-rider’s motorcycle, German staff car, Matilda Tank, Panzer Mark IV. It takes a lot of training, plus plenty practice, to become a really top driver of even one of that lot. No man could handle them all like an ace. No man? Wait a minute, you heard of ‘Wheels’ […]
It was a warm, sunny day in 1944 when, out of the blue, a mysterious bolt of lightening struck Paratrooper Frankie Walsh. His C.O. called it a freak accident, but it triggered a domino effect of even stranger events…events that were to send Frankie spiralling through time itself! Story: Alan Hebden Art: Morhain & Rodriguez Cover: Ian Kennedy
Not everybody likes guessing games, but Corporal Bill Smith was quite good at them – which was just as well. For the guess he and some others were about to make might ensure victory…or cost the lives of thousands of Allied soldiers. And Bill didn’t have nearly enough time to make up his mind… Story: […]
In 1938, on the eve of the Second World War, British Agent Ned Finch is on a top secret mission in the Middle Eastern Kingdom of Majaffa. But, after Finch is injured by the Germans, petroleum scientist Ulysses ‘Danger’ Doyle is called in to finish Finch’s investigation. Something isn’t adding up though. Why are the […]
Down, down, down screamed the Hurribombers, their pilots letting the bombs go only at the last possible second. Their target was a chateau which sheltered Brigadefuhrer Helmut Groot, the Nazi killer whose very name put shivers down the spine of all who heard it. And in case the bombs failed, Captain Steve Simpson and a […]
In the final bloody hours of the Vietnam war, the P.A.V.N. were at the gates of Saigon. The U.S. embassy was the last refuge for the South Vietnamese who worked for the American Government. But as the final choppers ferried the last of the workers to safety, Bill Evans realised that his best friend, Van […]
For someone desperately seeking safety, joining the army on the brink of a full-scale war might not seem like the wisest move. But when your name is high on a Mafia hit-list, escape to battle isn’t such a crazy idea after all. For, surely, even the Mafia couldn’t track you down to a battlefield thousands […]
In 1942 the Japanese Northern Army invaded American soil, capturing the island of Attu, off the coast of Alaska. For nineteen days, America battled against Japan in the only land battle of World War Two fought on American territory. Inspired by true events, Sergeant Bill Johnson leads an American Infantry Division into the mountains of […]
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