U.S. Air Force Comics #14

Lt. Johnny Webb breaks formation to pursue two enemy MIG-15s and flies straight into a carefully laid trap—but it's Major Ed Dooley who was the real target all along. When Dooley realizes the Communists are after him, not the young pilot, he leads the swarming enemy fighters down to ground level where infantry and tank crews can help even the odds. Now, with Webb grounded and Dooley under orders to stay in quarters, the ground troops in a desperate dawn battle call for the one pilot they trust most.

In 1942, three promising pilots—Lou Dockwiller, George Kennedy, and the gifted Buzz Simmons—form an unstoppable team, until Buzz is killed by a saboteur before seeing combat. When Lou survives a lightning strike over the Atlantic and is mysteriously guided to safety by an unseen P-38, he becomes convinced it was Buzz, and soon both he and George begin crediting their fallen friend with impossible aerial victories during combat missions. As their uncanny luck and impossible claims mount, their commanding officers grow deeply troubled by what may be grief-fueled delusion—or something far stranger flying alongside them.

Lt. Cuzz Conroy arrives in England as a brash young pilot convinced he'll survive any combat—until he develops an unshakeable conviction that his seventy-fifth mission will be his last. As he climbs the ranks to Major and accumulates victories across dangerous operations over France and Germany, his superstition only deepens, haunting his dreams and testing the nerve that once seemed unbreakable. On the day of that fated seventy-fifth mission, Conroy must confront whether fear itself can be as deadly as any enemy fighter.