Tag Archives: WW2

Hong Kong Hooky

Issue Number: 5500

Ask anybody who helped defend Hong Kong against the great tidal wave of Japanese soldiers near the end of December 1941, and they’ll tell you all about “Hong Kong Hooky”. A Royal Navy Lieutenant Commander whose ship was sunk by the Japanese, Hooky was put in charge of a bunch of military scruffs released from […]

Ramsey’s Raiders: The Castle

Issue Number: 5499

The rag-tag band of mavericks are back again but this time, Ramsey and his raiders have stormed a castle capturing all the Jerries inside! But things are never easy for Ramsey’s Raiders, as soon they become the ones under siege —by the SS, no less! And as if being trapped in a castle full of […]

Mighty Midget

Issue Number: 5498

Take one midget submarine less than fifty feet long, only thirty-nine tons in weight and with a crew of just four. To this add a cowardly captain and dangerous mission —to sink an enemy battle-cruiser anchored in a heavily defended river —and you have the recipe for an adventure!   Story: Crowther Art: Nebot Cover: […]

Pearl Harbor

Issue Number: 5497

December 7th, 1941, is a day that lives on in history. On that fateful day, the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service struck the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor in Oahu, in a surprise attack that left the entire planet reeling. Among the chaos, no-one could have predicted that an RAF pilot would be […]

Zero! Zero!

Issue Number: 5496

Time and again the Hurricane pilots had seen that same Zero on the tail of a crippled fighter, shooting up a crash-landed pilot, striking at the defenseless, and striking without mercy. They’d seen it —but that was all. Even the Japanese airfield couldn’t be found, and such was the skill of the Japanese ace that […]

Frozen Fallout

Issue Number: 5491

Private Lars Ratvik was the worst of all the men in Kompani Reinsdyr, otherwise known as Independent Norwegian Company 1. He couldn’t ski fast, couldn’t arm explosives correctly, he was clumsy and generally useless. But when the chips were down and everything laid on his shoulders, he had to take charge and complete the mission […]