U.S. Air Force Comics #17

Lt. Ray Bouvier survives a harrowing encounter with a ruthless Nazi pilot over 1944 Germany, only to be shot down and captured—but his real reckoning with Kapitan Heinrich von der Bache doesn't end when the war does. Years later, now a decorated Air Force officer, Bouvier finds himself called to Washington with an assignment that will finally put him back in the sights of his old enemy. A gripping tale of wartime survival and the long shadow of unfinished business.

Captain Art Kilbain arrives in a small nation as an air combat adviser, tasked with training inexperienced pilots to face ruthless communist veterans in the skies—but his orders forbid him from joining the actual fighting. As the young pilots suffer devastating losses, Kilbain pushes them harder, teaching them formation flying and teamwork, determined to turn the tide before the enemy air superiority becomes unstoppable. When a mysterious F-80 jet pilot emerges to turn the tide of battle, questions arise about who's really fighting for the cause.

Air Force Reserve Major Tommy Sayres struggles to balance his duty as a fighter pilot with his responsibilities as a civilian business partner—until an unidentified aircraft forces him to scramble and intercept a pair of Soviet bombers north of the Canadian border. Working alongside a Canadian fighter, Sayres must engage the enemy at fifty thousand feet, but the cost of this mission extends far beyond the skies. This war story explores what it means to answer the call when duty and family pull in opposite directions.