In 1940, Erik Jacobsen and his father Harold worked on a fishing boat called “Agnetha”. Their life was peaceful until one day, it was spotted by a German Heinkel 111 hellbent on vengeance! For not long before, this Heinkel had been forced to crash-land after being shot up by a fishing boat named “Agatha”. Well, […]
Everyone thought Billy Cooper was tied to his mother’s apron strings. She wouldn’t let him evacuate the island in 1940, enlist in the British Army, join the island’s resistance, or talk back to the Nazi occupiers. No wonder people thought he was a wet blanket! But everything changed for Billy when an injured commando washed […]
“Prize rules” — the set of maritime laws which require a ship’s crew to send a boarding party to inspect any suspicious merchant vessels. If the merchant ship was found to be carrying cargo bound for the enemy, then the submarine was permitted to sink the vessel — after the merchant crew had been put […]
Leutnant Matthias Schenk is a fanatic — exactly the kind of Nazi the Luftwaffe need behind their experimental night fighters and radar technology. But as the raids from Denmark progress, a bitter rivalry with fellow pilot, Bruno Neumann, plays on his mind. Old ‘Bullseye Bruno’ never seems to hit the mark, no matter how perfect […]
The Reich’s puppet government of Vichy takes control of Southern France, and air force loyalties are divided. The heroic Alain Broussard defects and vows to fight on with the Allies, but his protégé Yves Fernier is torn between loyalty and duty as his Commandant becomes ever more thirsty for Allied blood… Story: Steve Taylor […]
It did not always matter if your aircraft was the fastest or had the most firepower, so long as you had the highest ceiling… Thought to have been retired after the Spanish Civil War, and reaching a staggering 39,000 feet, the Junkers Ju 86P was one such plane. It dominated the skies over the North […]
Troubled by a past encounter early in his career, Royal Navy Lieutenant Commander Alec Weston soon became a respected, if intense, skipper. He was determined that his submarine, H.M.S. Undefeated, would live up to her name — therefore he pushed his crew and the vessel hard. When ferrying a Special Boat Section assault team on […]
It was a daring tactic known as the “Taran” — using an aircraft as an aerial battering ram. Major Ilya Bezkhov of the Russian Air Force had used it on several occasions and lived to tell the tale. When the Royal Air Force took on a mission to deliver four Tomahawk fighter-bombers to the Russians, […]
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