U.S. Fighting Air Force #8
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis anthology issue contains four separate stories: "Revenge for a Buddy," in which a pilot seeks vengeance for his fallen comrade by pursuing an enemy aircraft; "Air Base Decoy," depicting a strategic military deception operation; "Medal for a Hero," telling of pilot Sam Stanton, a newly married American airman who is killed in action, leaving his widow to receive his posthumous honor and a bundle of love letters; and an untitled story featuring American fighter pilots engaging enemy "Dragon" aircraft over Indo-China, discovering an enemy airfield that must be destroyed.
When Jake Keller spots a MIG bearing a telltale oriental "chop"—the signature of Joe Soong, the pilot who deliberately killed his best friend Fred Thomas years earlier—he breaks formation to settle the score over the skies of Bavaria. But Soong's attack on a B-36 bomber carrying an atomic bomb forces Jake to put personal vengeance aside and protect the mission, even as he hunts the man who's eluded him for so long. In this 1954 war story, Jake must decide whether duty or revenge will guide his hand when fate finally brings them face-to-face in combat.
Dusty Miller, a crop duster pulled into military service during the Korean War, finally gets his chance to return to his first love—agricultural dusting in Burma—only to discover that his new mission puts him in the crosshairs of communist forces determined to sabotage the region's rubber production. When enemy planes and fighters arrive to challenge his work, Dusty must rely on the same low-flying skills that kept him alive in Korea to outmaneuver opponents far better armed than his civilian spray plane. It's a high-stakes game where his greatest asset might be the one thing nobody expects from a duster pilot.
A newly married pilot named Sam Stanton is deployed overseas, and through letters home to his wife Ruth, we follow his dangerous missions as a fighter pilot—from his first combat encounter to increasingly daring aerial exploits. When tragedy strikes, his fellow pilot Fred Trent is left to deliver the tragic news of what became of the man who earned his medal of honor. This poignant war story reveals how courage and sacrifice are measured not in medals, but in the hearts of those left behind.
American pilots secretly resign from the Air Force to join the Flying Dragons, an unofficial outfit heading to Indo-China to take the fight to communist forces—but when their hidden jungle airfield draws enemy attention, Captain Matthew Anger devises a cunning plan to turn the hunters into the hunted. With jets and guts, the Dragons set a deadly trap that will test whether their deception can outmaneuver the Red Army's bombers.
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