Tag Archives: War in the Desert

Crosssed Swords

Issue Number: 5858

Many centuries ago, two soldiers, both trained killers, fought to the death in the scorching heat of the North African desert. Their weapons – the short, stabbing swords of the Roman legionary. Hundreds of years later, the same burning sands were to witness another duel. For two pilots, one British and one German, history was […]

Tank Buster Ace

Issue Number: 5856

You’ve heard of the Hurricane IID, the mighty fighter that packed a killer punch. Its job was smashing the Afrika Korps tanks with its two huge cannons. Now, meet the men who flew these planes into action — especially Wing Commander Theodore Trigg, an ace among aces, and leader of the RAF’s toughest bunch of […]

Glory Hound

Issue Number: 5855

Algeria, 1942. American soldiers storm the beaches of North Africa as part of Operation Torch. Sergeant John Rock of Dog Company takes his responsibility for his men seriously, and isn’t about to sacrifice any lives for a chance at glory. The same can’t be said for their new commanding officer, Lieutenant Hank Travers. The glory […]

Crime in the Sands

Issue Number: 5850

Life in the small supply depot in North Africa was quiet for Nick Hart. He was miles away from the war and nothing exciting ever happened. But that wasn’t going to last for long. Pretty soon he’d find himself behind enemy lines, playing a deadly cat-and-mouse game with the Germans — and the only men […]

Sands of Fear

Issue Number: 5840

Lieutenant Bill Johnston had real trouble on his hands – in the shape of a know-it-all Yank out on patrol with Bill’s tough, desert‑wise LRDG men, who just didn’t take to big heads. And the American, Lieutenant Schnabel, thought he knew the lot. So, as well as the desert and the Nazis, Bill had to […]

No Surrender

Issue Number: 5839

Egypt, 1942. The war in the desert was as hot as the blazing sun, with the Italians fighting the British in an all‑out battle for supremacy. The Long Range Desert Patrol was an ace in the hand of the Brits, and their raiding parties went behind enemy lines to cut off vital supplies to their […]

Born to be Brave

Issue Number: 5819

They called him a “headline hero” – a guy always out for glory, a guy who was always getting his photograph in the papers. Then, on one routine mission, his luck ran out. With his Spitfire riddled with German bullets, he parachuted from a flaming cockpit to the desert sands below. Nothing would ever be […]

Saved from the Desert

Issue Number: 5814

Corporal Tim Jolly and his mate Lofty Peake knew that the only thing that kept their squadron’s aircrafts flying was the giant transporter that they used to recover crashed planes. In the desert with spares almost unobtainable, every usable part they brought back was worth its weight in gold. But then one day a bossy […]

Desert Mystery

Issue Number: 5810

The German officer had been prepared to see a mirage or two in the desert, and he’d expected something along the lines of Arab tribesmen and palm trees. But now he was seeing a giant dinosaur lumbering straight towards him! He couldn’t believe his eyes, but the way the monster snapped its slavering jaws soon […]