Jonah in the Crew
Issue Number: 5088
Pilot Officer Jonah Kingston had all the courage in the world – and he certainly needed it all to fight the bad luck that dogged him. Story: R. A. Montague Art: Mira Cover: Sanfeliz
The Collection
Ambush in Kenya
Issue Number: 5087
With the scars of the Second World War still healing, it wasn’t long before Britain entered another conflict. Alec Murray was serving in the Black Watch in Kenya during the Mau Mau Uprising – but it wasn’t the Rebels he fought there. Injured and separated from their CO, Alec and his friends were taken in […]
Blood Hostage
Issue Number: 5086
Held captive on one of the German-occupied Channel Islands, Air-Commodore Henry Dorning had information which the Nazi High Command desperately wanted. The local Gestapo were supremely confident that they would soon have the gen – and the glory. After all, wasn’t Henry Dorning’s young nephew a hostage in their hands? But it was amazing what […]
Strike Swift – Strike Sure
Issue Number: 5084
Sergeant Archibald Bull was the kind of guy who chewed up dynamite and spat out Mills bombs. The roughest, toughest sergeant in the British Army. Join his mob of Commandos and follow him into battle. He’ll scare you half to death. Story: E. Hebden Art: Bellalta Cover: Penalva
Devil Dogs
Issue Number: 5085
By 1918, the end of the Great War was in sight, but even as it ground towards its bloody conclusion, the US Marine Corps were shipped in, charging while others retreated, straight to the front line. Facing German machine guns, barbed wire, mortar shells and mustard gas, the Americans were fearless in battle, earning them […]
Terror on the Tundra
Issue Number: 5083
Fighting in the Kola Peninsula, high in the polar latitude of the Russian tundra, the Eastern Front was awash in white, hiding the skilled Sami soldiers who hunted in the snow. These stealthy fighters fought for both sides of the war, earning fear and admiration… British Naval Officer Gavin Wright and Royal Artillery Bombardier Jim […]
Special Delivery!
Issue Number: 5082
A postman in civvy street, Corporal Johnny Bishop now served in a Field Postal Service Unit – a job he took very seriously indeed. So when the Luftwaffe bombed the latest batch of mail under his charge, he saw it as a personal insult. But one letter survived the bombing, and Johnny vowed that, above […]
Fire Fight
Issue Number: 5081
Ex London firefighter, Carl Strode was quick to sign up for the Gulf War, knowing his experience in hot situations would be handy in the Royal Engineers – but he had no idea how integral his skill set would be. Sent to defend an oil refinery in the Kuwait Desert, where their lead truck is […]
Winged Dagger
Issue Number: 5080
After he was wounded on a raid, they told Major Jeff Turner he wasn’t fit to fight with the Special Air Service any more. So he was transferred from the heroes who wore the winged dagger badge on their berets to command a unit that acted as a firefighting detail! These men were just a […]
Brothers
Issue Number: 5079
The Second World War was complex in the Baltic states as Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia found themselves caught between the Soviet and Nazi war machines. Annexed by the rise of Communism, by 1941, large swaths of Latvian men enlisted in the Wehrmacht, mistakenly believing the Germans would liberate them from their Soviet invaders. Among the […]
