U.S. Fighting Men #18

Captain Tim Wilson discovers his best friend and fellow ace, Captain Jeremy Tate, is suspected of sabotage and espionage for the enemy—a betrayal that leaves Tim torn between loyalty and duty as he's ordered to watch his buddy during combat missions over Korea. As evidence mounts that Jerry is deliberately missing shots and secretly meeting with enemy contacts, Tim must confront an impossible choice when his buddy attempts a final escape. A gut-wrenching story about friendship shattered by wartime treachery, where doing the right thing demands the heaviest personal cost.

Lieutenant Commander Skip Howard returns from a brutal bombing run over North Korea with a fuel tank running on fumes—and a wild story nobody's prepared to believe. After spotting what appears to be a phantom battleship hidden in an iceberg, Skip decides to investigate alone rather than risk being grounded for combat fatigue, leading him on a dangerous solo mission to prove the enemy's secret weapon is real. It's a tense race against fuel and enemy fire to expose the truth before his own command writes him off as unstable.

Lieutenant Jonas Washburn Smith has an obsession with feeding starving Korean children that drives him to an audacious plan: he'll steal a Soviet MIG fighter jet, collect the fifty-thousand-dollar reward the military is offering for one, and use the money to build an orphanage. Disguised as a Korean coolie, Smith infiltrates a Red airfield, hot-wires a MIG, and makes a daring escape—but his troubles are far from over when he has to convince his own side he's not the enemy pilot they think he is. It's a wild tale of conscience and chutzpah set against the Korean War.

When cocky stunt pilot Lieutenant Bernard Bentley—call sign Barnstorm—arrives in Korea as a replacement pilot, his new commanding officer, Colonel Sampson, recognizes trouble immediately: the kid has been flying like a daredevil since childhood, and he nearly drove the Colonel nuts back in stateside training. On Barnstorm's first combat mission as co-pilot, the bomber takes heavy fire near the Yalu, forcing him to make critical decisions under brutal conditions and ultimately take the controls when the Colonel is wounded. With a jammed bomb and a crippled aircraft, Barnstorm must find a way to get his ship and crew home—and prove he's more than just a reckless kid with a famous flying legacy.