Sea

The Treasure of Devil Island

Issue Number: 5786

Not every desert island is a paradise… as the shipwrecked British sailors washed up on Tarotonga were quick to find out. They’d barely dragged themselves ashore when an eerie wailing echoed along the beach and chilled their blood. Someone or something seemed displeased at their presence, and events began to take a more murderous course. […]

The Secret Torpedo

Issue Number: 5770

Lieutenant Bob Warren was an expert at defusing German bombs and mines and was quite used to odd hours and strange workplaces. So when he was awakened in the middle of the night and told there was another job to be done, he wasn’t too concerned. But when he realised that his destination was enemy-occupied […]

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 […]

Rescue Patrol

Issue Number: 5754

Life for Bob Wallis, a sailor aboard one of the many rescue launches that scoured the seas searching for ditched airmen, was never easy. And now, as the vessel approached one of the special rescue floats, the crew tensed, for they had no idea who would be sheltering inside it – British or German. But […]

Roll Depth Charges

Issue Number: 5721

The HMAS Hibiscus had to be the worst Bathurst-class Corvette in the whole Royal Australian Navy. Its crew was slow and lacked discipline, and its officers weren’t much better. But they were in for a shock, for Commander Bill Turner had been sent in to straighten them out — and he didn’t care how many […]

Steer into Danger

Issue Number: 5715

The salty seadogs are back for another oceanic adventure in the Pacific! In mid-December 1943, the Japanese sent a cruiser squadron south to wreak havoc amongst the Allied shipping lanes. But they never counted on the experienced skippers of HMAS Tiger and HMAS Wombat to put a stop to them before too much damage was […]

3 Company

Issue Number: 5711

In the midst of the ‘Miracle of Dunkirk’, fate throws together three strangers — a soldier, a sailor and a pilot. Surrounded by chaos and tragedy, and each having miraculously survived up until now, the three men point the finger at each other’s branch of the British armed forces for the deaths of their comrades. […]

The Hi-Jackers

Issue Number: 5708

The war seemed far away as the cargo ship Baripore Star steamed peacefully along through the blue Indian Ocean. She had only one four-inch gun bolted to her after-deck, and her crew reckoned they’d never have to use it. But in the sky above, a certain plane was making towards her, and in the water […]