The German officer had been prepared to see a mirage or two in the desert, and he’d expected something along the lines of locals and palm trees. But now he was seeing a giant dinosaur lumbering straight towards him! He couldn’t believe his eyes, but the way the monster snapped its slavering jaws soon convinced […]
Looping the loop in a huge glider packed full of troops might seem impossible, but it can be done if the pilot is good enough — and desperate enough to take the chance! Sergeant Hugh Miller, the co‑pilot of this glider was certainly desperate enough. His first pilot was wounded and if he didn’t do […]
Pinned on a board in every Luftwaffe airfield in Germany was a “Wanted Man” notice: “Wanted for the murder of Major von Dorn — the British pilot who flies a Spitfire bearing the insignia of a red mailed fist.” Adolf Hitler himself would shake the hand of the Nazi pilot who shot down that RAF […]
Six ordinary playing cards and six ordinary pilots. Each man was sent one card — and from that moment he was as good as dead! What was the terrifying power of darkness that cut this Hurricane squadron to pieces during those few weeks of the Battle of Britain? Story: CG Walker Art: Gordon C […]
On the ground or in the air, they were a pair of fighting fools. On civvy street, Mike Tulley and Terry Stark were bitter rivals for the middleweight boxing title. Then, in wartime, as Spitfire pilots they were never done trying to outfly and outfight each other — whether or not they died in the […]
“We’ve got two kinds of fighter pilots in this mob — the hunters and the hunted. The hunters fly fast, shoot first and come out on top. The hunted? Well… young Jimmy Daiken there is one of the hunted, because every time he goes up he expects the chop — and he won’t be disappointed…” […]
If ever a Spitfire in the RAF was special, this one was. No camouflage paint sullied its shining wings; no observer could fail to see it as it flashed across the sky. And yet it seemed that no Nazi plane could shoot it down as it claimed victim after victim. Its pilot, Tom Shaw, would […]
Courage and plenty of it — that’s what a soldier needs in wartime. But in the North African desert during the Second World War, it wasn’t only regular troops who were caught up in the fighting. There were many civilians and tribesmen there too. And one such tribe, with the help of some British soldiers […]
The Lancaster gunner gave a friendly wave to the approaching American Thunderbolt. It was great to have these powerful, heavily‑armed fighters on his side, he reckoned. Then his grin vanished as the Thunderbolt hurtled towards him in an attacking dive, its guns blazing. He wasn’t to know that the Thunderbolt belonged to a special force […]
The island of Crete in the Mediterranean Sea has its fair share of ancient legends. The most famous and terrifying of these is about the Minotaur, a creature with the body of a man and the head of a bull. By the time of the Second World War such a story was laughed at — […]
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