When young Horace Harper was at school the newspapers had headlines about him… ‘Boy Defeats Tiger!’, ‘Schoolboy’s Amazing Courage!’ and so on. It was only a few years later that Horace had his courage tested again, by another tiger. But this time it had a capital ‘T’ –the dreaded Tiger Mark VI tank. Story: […]
It should have been a normal run for drivers John Yateley and Jim Weaver, delivering much-needed supplies to the front line. But when an eerie sight appeared on a hilltop and the pair noticed it was the ghost of a tank from the wrong war… well, things were about to get very weird indeed! […]
The young pilot officer could hardly believe his ears. But there was no mistaking the grim seriousness on the face of the Air Commadore, no question that he meant exactly what he had said…“I want you to go over to France and kill my son.” Story: Gentry Art: Gordon C Livingstone Cover: Ian Kennedy […]
Many air fighters painted an emblem on their machines, and William Kidd felt like a pirate with crossed cutlasses marked on his Sopwith Camel. That was before he shot down the ace German fighter with the broadsword on his plane… and then did the same to his son in the Spanish Civil War. Now, a […]
Out of the murky depths they came, wreaking havoc in Gibraltar harbour, daring to defy the British defences, bringing death and destruction to the British Fleet. In silence they appeared… then vanished. They rode on torpedoes, faceless phantoms of the deep. Who were they? All the British knew was that the situation was desperate and […]
Dick Hammond’s life was hanging by a thread as he dangled perilously from a climbing rope on a top-secret mission in occupied France. Above him was Grace Baird, holding on to the sheer face of the cliff for life, and below him was his doom. He would have trusted Grace with his life… if only […]
How about this little chap for a war hero then! Don’t let his looks fool you…this scruffy mongrel had more adventures than most soldiers ever did, and if medals had been given to dogs, he’d have won a whole row of them! Story: CG Walker Art: Ferriera Cover: Ian Kennedy
Shortly after the Tet Offensive, Sergeant Donnie Michaels leads an elite team through the dense jungles of ’Nam with their new Kit Carson scout —codename “Monty”. But something isn’t quite right as teams Romeo and Juliet are guided through difficult terrain and around fatal booby traps. Tensions are running high, and they know an old […]
Commanded by Lieutenant Terry Horton, the sleek motor torpedo boat sped into the attack, guns blazing and torpedoes ready to launch at the German convoy ahead. But he didn’t just have the enemy to contend with, for in this crack flotilla there was another skipper who was doing his best to blacken Terry’s name —and […]
Sergeant Michael Finnegan was a veteran of the desert war, he and his crew forged in the flames of the scorching sun. But on D-Day +7, his life was shattered as his crew was ruthlessly gunned down by an enemy Panzer while climbing out of their disabled Sherman Firefly tank. And yet… whispers spread about […]
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