Air Adventures, December 1939

# Air Adventures, December 1939

This inaugural issue of Air Adventures features eight action stories centered on contemporary World War II aerial combat, along with military articles and reader contests. The lead story, "A Nazi Shall Die!" by Metteau Miles, introduces Captain Jimmie Milton and his friend Jimmy Fitch, a pilot consumed with hatred for Nazi fighter pilot Lichter, whose motivations remain cryptic as the narrative breaks. Other fiction includes Arch Whitehouse's "Warplanes for Sale," following Punch Woodward pursuing a warplane contract in South America; Edward Churchill's "Death Over Hollywood," where Tim Varden must prove his brother's murder through aerial flying; and Charles S. Verral's "The Boy Who Couldn't Fly," about a boy's discovery of a real aircraft in his attic. Michael Wade's "Treachery Over the Maginot Line" and Orlando Rigoni's "The Coward" explore internal conflict alongside enemy action. Nonfiction articles address contemporary strategy: "Why Germany Can't Win" by Major Roger Sherman Hoar and "Britain Bombs Berlin" by Lieut.-Col. B.R.S. Heatherington provide military analysis of ongoing 1939 operations.