The dreaded Junkers Ju87 filled with Nazi munitions flew the skies over Europe, as sturdy little Spitfires swarmed around it, cordite fumes from the eight jabbering Brownings filling the air. Scenes like these were played out as American airmen took on the Axis war machine. And these stories were told in the war aviation magazine Sky Raiders. Over the globe, wherever war touched, Sky Raiders took you there. Over the islands of the Pacific, in the hot skies above Africa, and the deadly European theater, Sky Raiders was a magazine of the war. It was conceived after the attack on Pearl Harbor and the first issue hit the magazine racks in the summer of 1942 with a December 1942 cover date. It lasted ten issues, until the Summer 1944 issue. Columbia Publications (aka Double-Action Magazines and Blue Ribbon Magazines) brought readers some amazing air action stories in those ten issues. Sky Raiders returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
Smashing Air-War Novel
Swastika Strafer
by T.W. Ford
Into the depths of the Reich went Lt. Carl Schron, disguised as a Nazi officer, whom he resembled, for a grisly coup was in the offing, and the Allied Nations had to know the secret!
Two Complete Novelets
Courage Is Silent
by Dave Goodis
Death rode the skies over the Libyan desert, but the men in that lone air-squadron were eager to be out and in it. They couldn’t understand this silent Canadian, who didn’t seem to care... until the zero hour came!
Death-Watch Patrol
by David C. Cooke
Was it possible that an officer named Lincoln was the spy responsible for the strange sabotage of planes on the Long Island Sound patrol?
Four Short Stories
Sky-Sparrow From Brooklyn
by Harley D. Benson
Bullit had been a clerk back in Brooklyn before he learned how to tackle the Japs. He didn’t feel like a hero, but there were the enemy planes, and he knew what he had to do.
Death Over Burma
by Herbert L. McNary
It was a desperate chance to take, but Kendall had to fly into the thick of the dogfight and take photos. Something was happening there too fast for the eye to see and the camera was the one weapon which could beat it!
Hell Cats Of The Air
by Pvt. David Brandt
The hell-cats were a flying circus giving those Nazi supply ships in Norwegian harbors no rest.
There’s A ‘Schmitt On Your Tail
by Steve Brown
Danny Walker’s sense of humor didn’t seem to click so well in the R.A.F.
A Short Short Story
It Might Have Happened!
The world might have been quite different if it had!
Special Department
Aces and Jokers
by Propwash Magee
Fun and facts where air-story readers bandy words with the fabulous airman!
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