All-American Men of War #108
In "Death-Dive of the Aces!", WW2 pilot Johnny Cloud is thrust into a haunting flashback of his childhood dream—this time as a WW1 biplane ace pursued by a deadly Albatross fighter. Written by Robert Kanigher and illustrated by Irv Novick, the story blends wartime tension with a chilling sense of fate, as Johnny faces the same perilous mission in both eras, each time narrowly escaping death by the same omen: a German plane painted like a bird of ill omen. The cover by Irv Novick captures the moment of dread and aerial peril.
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WW2 ace Johnny Cloud "wakes" and finds he's a WW1 pilot flying a biplane to destroy a flak-tower bridge. But he's hounded by a German Albatross pilot who hammers his plane to pieces. Johnny falls to his death -- And wakes in WW2. It was a dream once seen in his childhood: death by albatross, a bird of ill omen. Johnny learns today's mission is the same: destroy a flak-tower bridge. And he's again hounded by an albatross-painted German plane! Again his plane is destroyed, but his parachute snags on the enemy plane. Shooting the pilot steers the plane to destroy the bridge!
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