Before the war, Mike Stallard had fought as a pilot in China, Spain and South America. He hired out his skills to the highest bidder and always ended up where the dogfights were the fiercest. Then he went to France with the RAF, fighting strictly to order in clumsy Fairey Battles against sleek, deadly Me109s. […]
They said that Lancaster pilot Geoff Shaw didn’t need a navigator. He flew so low that his scared crew could see the road signs. You see, Geoff had wanted a sleek Spitfire, but he’d got a lumbering bomber instead. So now he worked off his rage by handling the Lanc like a fast fighter — […]
When Ken Welsh’s Typhoon was shot down he made the sort of forced landing that nobody should have survived. But survive he did — or did he? Something very strange had happened, for when Ken woke up, his sleek Typhoon had been replaced with an old-time biplane fighter — and it wasn’t 1944 […]
“The Cobras” they called them, this squadron of Airacobra fighters which struck day after day at the Nazis and always seemed to just vanish into the desert again.No wonder the Nazis could never find their secret base. It was deep behind German lines —the last place the enemy would look! Story: Brunt Ar: Arias […]
Mad Marston was a menace to everyone. He handled his Mosquito like a reckless fool. He didn’t care what damage he did to his plane or his crew. Then came the day his own brother went down in flames, and everyone knew who was to blame… Mad Marston himself! Story: Brunt Art: Arias Cover: […]
No guts! That’s what they said about young Harry Bishop, and that’s why he was demoted to being a buckshee driver in a twenty‑five pounder gun crew instead of commanding one of his own. The one person left to believe in Harry was — Harry. So he pinched back a gun from the Germans, and […]
A damp, soggy sandbank is not the ideal runway, but Pilot Officer Mike Hickling was using one as he battled to coax his Gladiator into the air. And, to make matters worse, a mate of his was lying flat on the wing, holding on like grim death. All this with a German launch slamming over […]
Walter Bennett still had nightmares of the day when his Anson, all set to attack a surfaced U-boat, had almost collided with a Catalina flown by an overanxious Yank who had also come in for the kill. Walter had dodged the Yank – and flown straight into a hail of fire from the German guns […]
Fog in the English Channel; visibility zero! Desperate Germans and equally desperate Britishers all searching frantically for one small rubber dinghy. Who finds it? Why is it so important? Story: Brunt Art: Gordon C. Livingstone Cover: Gordon C. Livingstone
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