Fightin' Air Force #32

When Colonel Mao Chung broadcasts his boasts about sixty-one aerial victories in Korea, Major Jim Donlan—who flew against the Chinese ace—recognizes him as a fraud and challenges him to settle the claim once and for all in the skies over Berlin. With his plane equipped only with camera guns instead of live ammunition, Donlan must outwit and outfly his opponent without the firepower to match him, all while the world watches to see if American courage will answer the Communist challenge.

Captain Bud Rimmon and his crew—cursed aboard their beat-up bomber, the Dead Duck—have survived collision, crash landing, and court martial, but their luck finally runs out when they're scrambled for a precision bombing run over southern France and intercepted by a swarm of Nazi fighters determined to bring them down. As flak tears into their fuselage and enemy pilots close in, Rimmon fights to keep the jinxed ship airborne long enough for his crew to escape—but when fortune abandons them at last, a desperate crash landing in occupied territory offers one final, unexpected twist on what "bad luck" really means.

Lieutenant Ed Philbin possesses an uncanny natural gift for flying—his hands move with the precision of someone born to the cockpit—while his squadron leader, Captain John Vinson Alcoyne, struggles with clumsiness both in the air and on the ground. When a Japanese bombing raid changes everything, Alcoyne discovers something impossible: he's developing the same extraordinary manual dexterity that made Philbin legendary, and with it comes a transformation in his combat abilities. Watch as the captain evolves from a hesitant flyer into an ace pilot, though the mysterious source of his newfound gift remains haunting.