Fightin' Air Force #33

A B-24 bomber crew led by Major Ed Healy has defied impossible odds through 135 missions over Nazi Germany, but their luck is running out—especially when the Germans make the Bronx Belle their priority target, offering rich rewards to any pilot who can finally bring her down. On what should be their last flight, Healy and his battered crew face concentrated anti-aircraft fire and relentless Luftwaffe attacks that tear their ship apart, testing whether even their extraordinary resilience can survive this final gauntlet. This is a story about men pushed past their limits, the choices that keep them flying, and the thin line between heroism and resignation in the face of overwhelming odds.

A disgraced pilot finds his second chance in the cockpit when he volunteers to fly an experimental fighter into combat over Guadalcanal—without authorization. Ed Bungay was court-martialed years earlier for misusing officers' club funds, but now he's convinced the untested X-1 fighter is ready to prove itself against enemy aircraft, even if higher-ups disagree. Stripped of his rank and determined to show what he and the plane can do, Bungay sets out on a mission that could change everything—or cost him far more than his career.

Robert H. Goddard revolutionized rocketry through his innovative physics and engineering, transforming simple cylindrical tubes into tapered, high-speed rockets and pioneering the multi-stage design that would shape space exploration. From his first liquid-propelled launch in 1926 through groundbreaking achievements in supersonic flight, gyroscopic steering, and vacuum propulsion, Goddard laid the foundation for modern rocket science—work that even aided Navy aircraft during World War II. Though he passed in 1945, his legacy remains foundational to humanity's reach beyond Earth.

When Major Douglas Edward Baldwin intercepts Soviet pilot Colonel Sergei Kalismanoff's attack on a civilian transport over Berlin, their clash triggers a personal challenge that escalates Cold War tensions to the breaking point. With the fate of the divided city hanging in the balance, Baldwin must face his nemesis in a high-altitude confrontation that will test not just his flying skills, but his nerve under the weight of international consequences. Can he outthink a ruthless adversary determined to prove Soviet air superiority?