Aircraft are only as good as the men who fly them. So, were the crews of these Stirling bombers the right men for the job? Were they brave, calm, determined, as good aircrews ought to be… or were they really cowards, dangerous fools, deserving heavy punishment? The RAF was soon going to find out —and […]
Armed with four twenty‑millimetre cannon and eight rockets, the Hawker Typhoon was a formidable opponent. Between tangling with FW 190s in the air and making low‑level strafing runs against heavily‑armed enemy shipping and ground targets, their pilots saw plenty of action.And the men who flew them had to be good indeed —for one mistake could […]
Night had fallen like a blanket over the silent desert. In the cover of the high dunes crouched three men —two RAF pilots and a Luftwaffe pilot. Only hours before they had been doing their very best to blast each other out of the sky, but now they were allies against a greater threat… […]
Gordon McAuliffe is the pilot of a Lockheed Hudson bomber based out of RAF Leuchars. All day, every day, he flies the same humdrum maritime patrols searching for enemy vessels. But everything changes when he finds a mysterious ring in a Pictish burial site. At first, Gordon can’t believe his luck at finding a charm […]
Out of the darkness they came, to strike at the enemy before he knew what was happening. Their radar locked onto the target, the parachute flares were dropped to illuminate their victim in a blinding glare, then down went the bombs. They were the long-range Catalina flying boats, painted dark grey and flown by men […]
Newly-qualified Flight Sergeant Owen Lewis was delivered to his new base inside the very plane he was about to serve in. The Lancaster was a beauty, and the crew welcomed Lewis with open arms — all except their bomb aimer, Burston, who had a chip on his shoulder bigger than the bombs he dropped over […]
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: […]
Pinned on a board in every Luftwaffe airfield in Germany was a “Wanted Man” notice: “Wanted for the murder of Major von Dorn — the British pilot who flies a Spitfire bearing the insignia of a red mailed fist.” Adolf Hitler himself would shake the hand of the Nazi pilot who shot down that RAF […]
“You will join Flying Officer Harker’s crew.” Any airman who heard these words would go pale, as if he’d just heard his death sentence pronounced. For there was some strange hoodoo on Peter Harker. Few of his crew ever came back in one piece. And everyone knew whose fault it was… Story: Fitzsimmons Art: […]
Six ordinary playing cards and six ordinary pilots. Each man was sent one card — and from that moment he was as good as dead! What was the terrifying power of darkness that cut this Hurricane squadron to pieces during those few weeks of the Battle of Britain? Story: CG Walker Art: Gordon C […]
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