Fightin' Air Force #51

American Eagle devises a daring deception: he'll have his trusted pilots—Reb Folsom, Hotrock Hutchins, and Ugly Harrison Clymes—stage a mutiny and shoot him down over occupied France, then all four will surrender to the Nazis at Stalag 23. Once imprisoned alongside Allied airmen, the three Eagles can gather intelligence on a secret German rocket fighter assembly plant nearby. As the elaborate scheme unfolds, American Eagle and his men must pull off the performance of their lives while the Nazi guards close in.

Captain Art Lyman arrives in Korea in 1950 as a brash young pilot eager to prove himself, but his confidence is tested when he discovers that American jets are outmatched by superior enemy MiGs. As the Korean War intensifies and Lyman flies mission after mission—from the early days in the slower F-80 Shooting Star through the arrival of the more competitive F-86 Sabre—he begins to understand what the veterans already know: that combat flying exacts a price no amount of skill can fully escape. Watch as fear grows in the cockpit alongside Lyman's experience, reshaping the carefree hotshot into something harder and more haunted.