Dropping bombs on Britain – that was the task of Leutnant Carl Toller, an ace Luftwaffe pilot. Making the bombs that didn’t explode safe – that was the dangerous job of Jim Bannon, an officer in the Royal Engineers. You couldn’t get two tasks more different than that, but one fateful night this pair would […]
Bert Baker has a dream of one day opening his own restaurant and thinks he has the perfect ingredients for a success! But first he must survive a hail of grenades and some of the worst conditions of the Second World War… and the enemy is only a short tennis serve away! Story: Richard […]
They shot skywards with incredible speed; flame and smoke trailing behind them as they blasted the Allied bombers to pieces with 30mm cannons. They were the incredible, deadly-dangerous Me163s, the winged killers called — KOMET! Story: RA Montague Art: DS Gomez Cover: Ian Kennedy
Nazis on the Isle of Wight?! Never. Certainly not. They may have had the Channel Islands, but no Nazi, not even tough Brandenburg raiders, would ever step foot on the sleepy island. And, one thing’s for sure, if it ever did happen you can bet that no‑one would ever know about it under the Official […]
In the Autumn of 1940, Hitler turned the full might of his air armada on the civilian population of London. Night after night, bombs rained down on houses, factories and shops. In those desperate days, young Dave Ross of the Auxiliary Fire Service found out what it was like on the front line of the […]
Sergeant Jack Preston was itching to get into the action. As a member of the Royal Corps of Signals he had wanted to be deep in combat, radioing intel right from the front line. Stuck behind a radio in the battalion headquarters on Crete was not his ideal way to spend the war, but it […]
Sixteen years old, and wanted for murder! That was the secret Mike Ryan took with him to the army recruiting office, where he told them he was eighteen and had a clean record! Yet this was the lad who became a perfect soldier. This was the kid who became a… Story: E Hebden Art: […]
The Reich’s puppet government of Vichy takes control of Southern France, and air force loyalties are divided. The heroic Alain Broussard defects and vows to fight on with the Allies, but his protégé Yves Fernier is torn between loyalty and duty as his Commandant becomes ever more thirsty for Allied blood… Story: Steve Taylor […]
Instant recognition of all other aircraft in the sky — that was an asset for any fighter pilot in the clash between the RAF and Hitler’s Luftwaffe. And Dick Marsh was better than most at knowing which aircraft were hostile and which were friendly. All the hard work he had put into perfecting this had […]
The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spy plane never flew in Russian airspace… officially. The Blackbird could reach a top speed of 2,200 mph and a ceiling height of 85,000 ft — enough to see the curvature of the earth. They outmatched everything the Russians could throw at them… except the MiG-31. So when one angry Red sets […]
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