U.S. Fighting Air Force #11
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis anthology issue contains three Air Force stories: "Operation Suicide," in which Colonel Ralph Foreman, dying from wounds sustained in battle over Korea, plays a dangerous game of hide-and-seek with enemy forces before making a final mission of doom; "May-Day Call!," featuring the crew of the B-29 bomber Big Betsy executing a perilous bombing run over Korea despite heavy flak damage and casualties; and an untitled story in which a pilot discovers a stone-pile temple marker, opens sealed instructions, and encounters a mysterious figure inside the temple—revealing himself to be Tony Clark, who escaped a Japanese prison camp ten years prior and has been held captive ever since, unaware the war had ended a week ago.
When Communist forces overrun a French beachhead in Indo-China, Major Johnny Anger and his Flying Dragons—American pilots on temporary duty—scramble their jets to provide desperately needed air support. After unleashing a devastating bombing run against the enemy in the jungle, Johnny and his wingman Skinny discover their base has been infiltrated by enemy soldiers, forcing a harrowing escape and a race back to friendly forces. With fuel running low and nowhere safe to land, the two pilots must think fast to survive their perilous journey home.
Colonel Ralph Foreman knows he's dying—a condition he's kept secret from his commanding officers and his wife—but when he's grounded for medical reasons, he refuses to spend his final days in a hospital bed. Instead, he disobeys orders and volunteers for a dangerous bridge-bombing run over North Korea, determined to make his last mission count. With nothing left to lose, the Colonel flies headlong into enemy fire on "Operation Suicide," a final act of defiance against both his illness and the enemy.
Captain Steve Larsen and the crew of the bomber Big Betsy are sent on a dangerous mission over Korea that takes an unexpected turn when ground forces call for emergency air support—forcing a heavy bomber to fly low like a fighter and take on enemy tanks. As they limp back toward Japan with a stuck bomb in the bay, damaged landing gear, and a fuel tank running dry, the crew faces a desperate choice: bail out and hope for the best, or trust one man's steady hands to disarm a five-hundred-pound bomb while the captain decides who gets the last parachute. Every second counts when you're flying a crippled plane over open water with nowhere left to go.
"Chuck" Torance, the youngest wing-commander of the R.C.A.F., takes on a dangerous mission as a confidential agent in the Far East: recover a fortune in Dutch diamonds hidden in a deserted temple in Indo-China before the wrong hands claim them. When he arrives at the temple, Torance discovers a man claiming to be an escaped prisoner—but nothing is quite what it seems, and he'll need all his wits to navigate competing agents, hidden threats, and a cunning adversary determined to keep the diamonds for himself.
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Reprinted in U.S. Fighting Air Force #1 (1958)
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