Fightin' Air Force #44

During the Korean War, Major Teed Horner chases a ruthless Communist pilot who repeatedly uses the Yalu River as a sanctuary—the invisible boundary where American forces are forbidden to follow. When Horner's jet is damaged in combat and he's forced to eject, he finds himself drifting toward enemy territory, stranded on the Chinese side of that same river with a rescue team scrambling to mount a dangerous retrieval. Now Horner must survive behind enemy lines while his squadron races against time and military protocol to bring him home.

A young sergeant clashes with Lt. Bernard Wohl, a by-the-book officer fresh to Capt. Deac Cartney's B-24 crew flying dangerous missions over Berlin, and the tension between them simmers until a catastrophic bombing run over Hamburg forces Wohl to prove what he's made of. When the plane is crippled and escape is impossible, the cowardly lieutenant must fly a damaged aircraft back to England with injured crewmen aboard—and no way home if he fails.

Lt. Ray Tosek, an Army pilot flying low-level reconnaissance missions over the New Guinea jungle in a fragile L-5, finds himself shot down and trapped in a tree surrounded by Japanese forces determined to capture him. With radio contact to Allied artillery and ground forces, Tosek coordinates a desperate defense while a rescue patrol and P-38 fighter support race to reach him before the enemy overwhelms his position. What begins as a personal fight for survival becomes a turning point that draws an entire enemy regiment into one concentrated battleground.