Air

The QM’s Storeroom of Secrets

Issue Number: 5797

Ey up, ghouls and creeps! Feast your eyes on Commando’s first‑ever anthology of horror! Included in this creepy Commando are six supernatural tales I’ve collected from my storeroom! From crows to bats, from thieves to murderers and from witches to vampires — there’s something for everyone here in Commando!   Story: Georgia Standen Battle Art: […]

River of Death

Issue Number: 5794

They took Jim Chalmers off Hurricanes because they reckoned he’d lost his nerve, fought too many dogfights with Zeroes. They gave him a lumbering Dakota on a routine job ferrying supplies from one base to another. Jim didn’t like this at all, but he needn’t have worried. There were wilder days coming, days when he […]

Ghost Pilot

Issue Number: 5792

Piloting a lurching bomb‑loaded Lancaster through the flame‑lit, shell‑torn night skies of Germany needed nerves of steel. Bomber pilots were a tough, cheery bunch. They had to be. Then into a squadron came the strange, young pilot with pure white hair and burning, bitter eyes, and raids began to go wrong. Bombs were wasted on […]

Nothing but Trouble

Issue Number: 5784

Private Andy Rooney was a real bad lot — a skiver, a shirker, a nasty piece of work. And when he became a glider pilot it was the same — wherever he went, he got into hot water. With friend and foe alike, the arrival of Andy meant…NOTHING BUT TROUBLE     Story: Staff Art: […]

Bait

Issue Number: 5783

North Africa, November 1942. During the aerial front of Operation Torch, an Allied pilot and a Vichy pilot are forced down in a mountainous region of Algeria. Ready to continue the battle hand to hand, they soon must put their differences aside, as they discover they’ve landed slap bang in the hunting ground of a […]

Pressure Point

Issue Number: 5779

In the darkest days of the Cold War, RAF interceptor crews lived on a knife-edge, knowing that every alert could be the harbinger of nuclear armageddon. Every day, they risk their lives to meet the threat of Soviet attack — the intense pressure pushed one beleaguered lightning jet pilot beyond endurance towards a fatal confrontation! […]

Twenty-five Flights

Issue Number: 5775

The B-17 Flying Fortress bomber ‘High Guard’ had the best crew in the whole outfit. Through the brutal anti-aircraft flak in the cold light of day they had flown twenty-four missions into the heart of Germany together. If they could complete their twenty-fifth flight it would end their tour of duty… But would they survive […]

Date with Destiny

Issue Number: 5764

An old woman looked into the palms of three men — an Englishman, a German and a Frenchman — and foretold what strange and fearful fates lay in store for them. She was probably dead by the time the Second World War engulfed Europe in flames but not one of the three ever forgot their […]

Zeppelin Raid

Issue Number: 5763

In 1915, Germany took The Great War to the British people when mammoth zeppelins rained bombs, fire, and destruction on Great Yarmouth. Seeing the devastation of his hometown, Royal Navy Lieutenant Billy Cavendish couldn’t be stopped from joining the Royal Navy Air Service as a fighter pilot to take down the Kaiser’s deadly airships once […]

Fallen Sabre

Issue Number: 5761

Inspired by true events…   During the ferocious fighting of the air war in Korea, both Allied and Communist forces were desperate to gain any edge in battle. Soviet-built MiG-15s duelled with American F-86 Sabres in the skies known as “MiG Alley” — and they would stop at nothing to capture an enemy aircraft intact! […]