Air

Polish Paras

Issue Number: 5809

Operation Market Garden, 1944. The brave men of 1st Independent Polish Parachute Brigade jumped out of their transports above Arnhem, ready for red-hot action. Thousands of parachutes opened and floated through the skies with men who only had one thing on their mind, “finally we can get back at the Nazis!” Among their number was […]

The QM’s Storeroom of Secrets

Issue Number: 5797

Ey up, ghouls and creeps! Feast your eyes on Commando’s first‑ever anthology of horror! Included in this creepy Commando are six supernatural tales I’ve collected from my storeroom! From crows to bats, from thieves to murderers and from witches to vampires — there’s something for everyone here in Commando!   Story: Georgia Standen Battle Art: […]

River of Death

Issue Number: 5794

They took Jim Chalmers off Hurricanes because they reckoned he’d lost his nerve, fought too many dogfights with Zeroes. They gave him a lumbering Dakota on a routine job ferrying supplies from one base to another. Jim didn’t like this at all, but he needn’t have worried. There were wilder days coming, days when he […]

Ghost Pilot

Issue Number: 5792

Piloting a lurching bomb‑loaded Lancaster through the flame‑lit, shell‑torn night skies of Germany needed nerves of steel. Bomber pilots were a tough, cheery bunch. They had to be. Then into a squadron came the strange, young pilot with pure white hair and burning, bitter eyes, and raids began to go wrong. Bombs were wasted on […]

Bait

Issue Number: 5783

North Africa, November 1942. During the aerial front of Operation Torch, an Allied pilot and a Vichy pilot are forced down in a mountainous region of Algeria. Ready to continue the battle hand to hand, they soon must put their differences aside, as they discover they’ve landed slap bang in the hunting ground of a […]

Pressure Point

Issue Number: 5779

In the darkest days of the Cold War, RAF interceptor crews lived on a knife-edge, knowing that every alert could be the harbinger of nuclear armageddon. Every day, they risk their lives to meet the threat of Soviet attack — the intense pressure pushed one beleaguered lightning jet pilot beyond endurance towards a fatal confrontation! […]

Twenty-five Flights

Issue Number: 5775

The B-17 Flying Fortress bomber ‘High Guard’ had the best crew in the whole outfit. Through the brutal anti-aircraft flak in the cold light of day they had flown twenty-four missions into the heart of Germany together. If they could complete their twenty-fifth flight it would end their tour of duty… But would they survive […]

Renegade Raiders: The Windmill

Issue Number: 5773

The Renegade Raiders return in more paratrooper action after D-Day! Sergeant Joe Shatner and his group of mavericks have more than just Nazis to contend with, as his brown-nosing lieutenant has it out for them! That is until a surprising radio call has the Renegade Raiders hightailing it to a windmill in enemy territory on […]