Pop’s Army
Issue Number: 5818
A bunch of teenage French boys commanded by a British schoolmaster couldn’t cause the Nazi invaders that much trouble, could they? You bet they could! Story: Bernard Gregg Art: Ruiz Cover: Ian Kennedy
Tag Archives: Ian Kennedy
Find the Traitor
Issue Number: 5816
The brave partisans hidden high in the snow-clad mountains of Yugoslavia had a tough time keeping out of the clutches of the Nazis — especially with that Fieseler Storch reconnaissance aircraft seeking them out. But with the Yugoslavians were Nick Bradford and Stan Waterman, two RAF lads who’d been shot down and stranded. They decided […]
Saved from the Desert
Issue Number: 5814
Corporal Tim Jolly and his mate Lofty Peake knew that the only thing that kept their squadron’s aircrafts flying was the giant transporter that they used to recover crashed planes. In the desert with spares almost unobtainable, every usable part they brought back was worth its weight in gold. But then one day a bossy […]
Winners Losers
Issue Number: 5802
Karl Von Hessler always had to win. A trophy held aloft or medal on his chest were prizes worth any sacrifice. His brother Ulrich had different rules. During the First World War, he’d sickened of the killing and vowed never to wear a uniform again. Instead, he’d turned to medicine and the fight against death. […]
Ghost Tiger
Issue Number: 5798
Deep in the steaming jungle of India, where the tiger is king, there dwelt a sinister spirit. It was known as Thuggee Raj, a ghost tiger which nightly prowled the forest paths, striking terror into every heart. Any man who scoffed at it was foolish indeed, for Thuggee Raj had a power no man could […]
River of Death
Issue Number: 5794
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 […]
Nothing but Trouble
Issue Number: 5784
Private Andy Rooney was a real bad lot — a skiver, a shirker, a nasty piece of work. And when he became a glider pilot it was the same — wherever he went, he got into hot water. With friend and foe alike, the arrival of Andy meant…NOTHING BUT TROUBLE Story: Staff Art: […]
Escape to Freedom
Issue Number: 5778
Sergeant Stan Boden and Private Ernie Briggs were caught behind the advancing German armies in France during 1940. Stan reckoned that if they could fight their way through to Dunkirk they would manage to escape to England. But not Ernie —all he wanted to do was surrender! Story: McDevitt Art: Philpott Cover: Ian Kennedy
The Night the Tow Rope Broke
Issue Number: 5776
The night the tow rope broke was the worst in Lieutenant Mike Hasting’s life. For when his glider crash-landed off target in Sicily, he was captured by a Sicilian brigand called Il Castello who dragged him off to a cave on the side of Mount Etna, the largest volcano in Europe. And there, Il Castello […]
Desert Fox
Issue Number: 5760
“The Ghost” — that was the British soldiers’ nickname for the solitary German tank which would appear mysteriously out of the desert wastes to create havoc, and then just as strangely disappear. Its tracks could never be seen, and everybody reckoned it was unstoppable — everybody, that is, except Sergeant Greg Fox. Greg decided to […]
