Tag Archives: Alberto Saichann

Wild Weasel

Issue Number: 5559

During the Vietnam War, the skies above the unforgiving jungle were a dangerous place for American warplanes. Something that Captain Shannon “Vulcan” Sovndal and his RIO, Lieutenant Erik “Luger” Colnick, found out when Russian‑supplied SAMs used by the North Vietnamese Army shot down and killed their wingmen. But the SAM sites would not have it […]

Escape from Java

Issue Number: 5511

Flight Sergeants Danny Blake and Greg Roberts had been in their Blenheim from the deserts of North Africa to the jungle dirt airstrips of Malaya. They were good at their jobs but the only thing that stood in their way was their skipper, Pilot Officer John Foden —a toff with little regard for his crew […]

Divergent Empires

Issue Number: 5473

A friendship forged in battle, Corporals Christopher Green and Ryu Fujiwara met through the haze of bullets and smoke as both their nations faced the Germans during the Siege of Tsingtao. Theirs was a kinship that lasted the rest of the war and well into the decades to come. For Green and Fujiwara, Japan and […]