U.S. Air Force Comics #23

Col. Buckner Laine has spent two decades waiting for a rematch with Chou Kai-Chung, the Communist pilot who bloodied him back in 1941 with the Flying Tigers—and now, over Korea, Laine has engineered the perfect trap to finally settle their ancient grudge in the skies. With his F-84F Thunderstreak bait-and-switch catching Chou's MiG-17 off guard, the two old enemies are about to collide in a battle that's been building since their first brutal encounter twenty years ago.

From sickly boyhood to Rough Rider glory, Theodore Roosevelt transformed himself through sheer determination—trading a fragile body for outdoor toughness out West, then answering the call when the Spanish-American War erupted in 1898. This wartime tribute captures how a writer-statesman became a living legend, proving that physical limitations are no match for an iron will.

A U.S. Air Force pilot and his team undertake a daring Cold War mission: flying a specially silenced white plane over Russian villages to drop American newspapers as propaganda, hoping the evidence of Western prosperity and democracy will plant seeds of doubt in Soviet minds. When their operation draws unwanted attention from a Red fighter base, Major Carrol and his men must improvise a desperate escape across enemy territory. It's a tense tale of ingenuity and nerve set against the ideological battleground of the early 1960s.

Captain Arkie Weedom pilots his B-24 bomber and elite crew on a desperate long-planned mission to destroy a German dam that powers the underground factory producing the deadly new ME 262 jet fighter—a machine that threatens to turn the tide of the war if production continues unchecked. With a specially designed British bomb loaded and anti-aircraft fire closing in from all sides, bombardier Captain Luther Ogilvie must make the critical moment count. Flying at just seventy feet over enemy territory, Weedom holds the aircraft steady as the crew prepares to deliver their payload on target.