Fightin' Air Force #23

First Lieutenant Jackson Hale wants nothing more than to fly his F-86 Sabre over Korea and go home in one piece—but fate and his own instincts have other plans when he's forced to bail out behind enemy lines. Finding himself on the ground amid Communist tanks and gunfire, Hale discovers that survival and heroism aren't always things you can avoid, no matter how hard you try. As medals and promotions pile up despite his protests, he learns a hard truth about what it means to be the type of man who acts when others freeze.

A Polish refugee pilot haunted by personal loss, Captain Kofic commands his B-24 Liberator with a reckless courage his crew interprets as a death wish—and they want no part of it. When a dangerous low-level bombing run saves thousands of Allied lives but fractures his crew's trust entirely, Kofic faces an even greater test: can he prove to the men under his command that his fearlessness serves something larger than his own despair?

Major Spud Lewis volunteers for a deadly reconnaissance mission to photograph the Gestapo's Hamburg headquarters, but his plane is shot down and he's captured—leaving Allied command scrambling to rescue both him and the other airmen held prisoner on the building's top floor. When a daring plan emerges to use skip-bombing tactics to destroy the lower levels and create an escape route, a flight of Navy pilots races against dawn to execute the raid before the Gestapo can extract crucial intelligence from their captured "boys upstairs."