Meet Private Casey, the biggest scrounger in the army. He’d pinch anything unless it was nailed down — and while he was at it he let the other guys get on with the fighting. The exact opposite of a hero, that was Private Casey. So how come a guy like that managed to win a […]
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 […]
“You will join Flying Officer Harker’s crew.” Any airman who heard these words would go pale, as if he’d just heard his death sentence pronounced. For there was some strange hoodoo on Peter Harker. Few of his crew ever came back in one piece. And everyone knew whose fault it was… Story: Fitzsimmons Art: […]
To see in the dark, to sense danger with the cunning of a wild thing, to move like a hunting panther and strike with the same silent deadliness — these are the qualities you’d need to survive alone and unarmed in the enemy filled Burmese jungle at night. But only one human being had them […]
“Battling Barton”, British heavyweight champ, became Sergeant Joe Barton by the time D-Day dawned. No-one got ahead of Joe when the great advance started. By boot, gun, and rock-hard fist, Joe smashed his way across Europe, searching for one cruel Nazi who’d once tricked and beaten him in the ring – SS Captain Kurt Kleiner. […]
From the moment Jack Mitchell joined the R.A.F. and began his flying training as a pilot, he was a marked man. He was pointed out to strangers; his mates used to whisper about him; his every move was watched. And when his pilot’s wings were eventually pinned to his chest, even the R.A.F. expected great […]
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