Tag Archives: Vietnam War

Hunger for Glory

Issue Number: 5655

Colonel John Devlin, USAF, had chased glory in three wars… but it had always passed him by. Now, in the savage air battles over war‑torn Vietnam, he saw his final chance to grab it when a new pilot arrived -—a real hotshot, a born ace. There and then Devlin decided that this top gun was […]

Free Strike

Issue Number: 5611

Shortly after the Tet Offensive, Sergeant Donnie Michaels leads an elite team through the dense jungles of ’Nam with their new Kit Carson scout —codename “Monty”. But something isn’t quite right as teams Romeo and Juliet are guided through difficult terrain and around fatal booby traps. Tensions are running high, and they know an old […]

Cougar Squadron

Issue Number: 5577

In the skies over Vietnam, the American and North Vietnamese fought for supremacy day after day. When expert tactician Major John Gardener was given command of the crack Cougar Squadron, he thought his great planning skills would make all the difference. But he was to quickly find out that tactics on the ground did not […]

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 […]

Dead Men’s Boots

Issue Number: 5555

Fresh-faced Lieutenant Chuck Kinley arrives in-country to greet his new team, only to be bitterly disappointed with his own performance! With rumours of his predecessors being fragged by their own men, NCOs playing by their own rules, and the Viet Cong taking advantage of Kinley’s naivety, Echo Company find themselves defending an old French outpost […]

Five Seconds in ‘Nam

Issue Number: 5419

A lot could happen in five seconds during the Vietnam War. In those few seconds, you could fall in a punji pit, be attacked by a tigress or a viper, get cut off and surrounded by Vietcong fighters, escape an F-100 Super Sabre’s fiery payload, or get to a Huey evac point. Those precious specks […]