Jet Fighters #7

Ivan Petrovitch arrives in Manchuria as a newly commissioned Soviet pilot assigned to learn combat tactics against United Nations forces in Korea, only to witness his superiors coldly sacrifice inexperienced pilots as expendable training material. As Ivan sees the true cost of war—and begins to question the propaganda he's been fed about the West—he must navigate the deadly skies while grappling with dangerous truths that Moscow never told him.

During a dangerous reconnaissance mission over North Korea, Airman First Class Gorden Goldberg discovers photoflash bombs jammed in his aircraft's bomb bay—a predicament that could detonate at any moment. Racing against the cold and the clock, Goldberg climbs into the exposed bomb-rack thousands of feet above enemy territory to manually free the deadly ordnance before catastrophe strikes.

When Colonel Steiner and his outfit—the Spook Squadron—finally bring down Radoff, the enemy's deadliest ace, it should be a victory to celebrate. But Moscow Molly's ominous radio broadcast warns that Radoff will return from beyond the grave, and soon a ghostly white MIG begins stalking the demoralized pilots, appearing without warning and vanishing without a trace. As the mysterious nemesis claims victims and shatters the squadron's morale, Major Whalen must determine whether they're facing a supernatural curse or something far more earthly—before Radoff's vengeance claims them all.

In the Korean War, the U.S. Navy deploys an experimental weapon: pilotless aircraft—obsolete Hellcats converted into radio-controlled drones, complete with television cameras that let control officers guide them from a carrier. When North Korean troops mistake one of these mechanical raiders for a conventional fighter and retreat into a tunnel, they discover too late that the drone answers to no human pilot's mercy.

Jet pilot Joe Seeley has a reputation for claiming to spot flying saucers—and his fellow airmen think he's lost his mind, especially when no one else ever sees them. When he's reassigned to Korea, Seeley gets a chance to prove himself in combat against enemy fighters, but a mysterious disk-shaped aircraft appears over hostile territory, forcing him to make an emergency landing and take control of the strange craft himself. By the story's end, Seeley discovers the truth behind the sightings and brings the experimental aircraft home, finally vindicating his incredible observations.

When jet pilot Tony Grant's eyesight begins to fail him, he's grounded and removed from Squadron X76—but a personal tragedy and a chance at redemption send him on one last unauthorized mission over enemy territory. As his fellow pilots grapple with what they thought was cowardice, the truth about Tony's sacrifice unfolds in this tense Korean War story that turns suspicion into resolve.