Buffalo Patrol
Issue Number: 5116
The story of a grubby RAF mechanic who threw away his spanner and stole a Buffalo – to become a fighter ace! Story: Staff Art: Mira Cover: Ian Kennedy
Tag Archives: RAF
The Waiting Game
Issue Number: 5114
Pilot Officer Bob Barnes was bored. He’d joined the RAF hoping to be a fighter pilot, always in the thick of things. Yet, here he was, a navigator in a Catalina, searching the seemingly endless oceans for U-boats which they never seemed to find. There was none of the action he’d craved, this was more […]
They Flew By Night
Issue Number: 5108
Tich Bradbury had never been frightened in his life. His crazy courage was legendary in the RAF aerodrome where he flew Lancs. But suddenly, he did know fear — just because he had volunteered to fly a different bomber on the next mission… for this plane was a legend in the aerodrome too. It was […]
Wings of War
Issue Number: 5044
From the moment Jack Mitchell joined the R.A.F. and began his flying training as a pilot, he was a marked man. He was pointed out to strangers; his mates used to whisper about him; his every move was watched. And when his pilot’s wings were eventually pinned to his chest, even the R.A.F. expected great […]
To Be a Pilot…
Issue Number: 5026
…that’s all Jan Solecik wanted. Trouble was, he’d been thrown off pilot training courses and was now stuck in the Polish Army, fighting alongside British troops in the North African desert. As he looked up at the aircraft which fought in the sky above him, not even he could imagine the strange series of events […]
Glory Hunter
Issue Number: 5024
Sam Blake was fed up. He’d come from Canada to join the R.A.F. to fight Nazis as a fully qualified pilot, only to find he had to learn to fly all over again, the official way. Then they kicked him out of a fighter squadron. “Too reckless and irresponsible,” they said. “Give him a bomber. […]
