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- An unhappy, disliked image consultant gets a second shot at life when he is mysteriously confronted by an eight-year-old version of himself.
- Tod and Linc, in Cape Coral, Florida working for an air service, search for the owner-missing with his plane in swampland. As the story unfolds it is revealed that the owner, a WWII air ace, was never able to adjust to non-hero civilian life. The unhappy saga includes the man's ex-wife and one-time enemy.
- A strict instructor captain gives low instrument rating grades to good combat pilot that could hurt his chances of promotion.
- After 49 successful missions, Angel Babe is the Grande Damme of the 918th bomber fleet, and to some like her flight engineer, Sgt. Willets, she even seems to have a soul (and mind) of her own. Her endurance has earned her the label of good-luck charm to the men of the Group. Upon completion of her 50th mission, the Army has decided to retire her from active service and return her to the States for a life of leisure as a recruiting icon. But Angel Babe seems to have other ideas, as she suddenly develops a multitude of mechanical ailments that thwart that final-mission goal. Not only does this strange turn of events recast her as an albatross, it also casts a shadow of suspicion over Willets due to his insistence that she's not ready to withdraw from combat.
- The 918th planes are equipped with a new radar that makes it very easy to bomb enemy targets through thick clouds, but the Germans soon learn it makes their enemies' planes that much easier to track, as well.
- Gallagher's B-17 is forced down between German and Russian lines with a badly wounded general, his cowardly aid, and a secret document he must get to London.
- Gallagher's older battle fatigued Lt. col. brother in charge of a base in Africa refuses to refuel his planes, and has plans to abandon the area.
- A colonel tries to keep Gallagher grounded, to save his own reputation after failing many times to find and destroy u-boat bases.
- Everett Stone, a pilot who washed out of flight training and was subsequently dishonorably discharged from the service for insubordination after serving six months hard labor, finds his way to England as a civilian named Thomas Carpenter, and proceeds to infiltrate the 918th and masquerade as a captain, claiming his belongings and credentials were stolen in London. Desperate for replacements, Gallagher puts him to work as co-pilot on several missions to test his mettle while waiting for confirmation of Carpenter's status that will never come. However, he is recognized by Sgt. Stan Holcombe, who confronts the impostor but briefly holds his tongue. Holcombe is then seriously injured on a mission before he can reveal the truth and dies after surgery. Carpenter is eager to command his own bomber before his ruse is discovered, but his evaluator, Capt. Enright, declines to recommend him, alerted to something amiss, even if he cannot quite put his finger on it. As Stone/Carpenter's web of lies begins to become undone, he gets ever more desperate and willing to do whatever it takes to accomplish his mysterious goal.
- An American chaplain loses faith when the woman he loves, and more than two dozen young soldiers, are killed when 918th base is bombed; three of the Germans responsible are captured but plot to complete their original sabotage mission.
- Col. Gallagher is very suspicious when he and a capt. are set free on an island they were marooned on after being captured by a Nazi u-boat commander.
- Gallagher's men take charge of a newly liberated Italian airfield, but the colonel there is so lax, that loyalist could help the Germans retake the base.
- On the way back from a mission, a mentor of Joe Gallagher's, Colonel Gus "Pappy" Wexler is flying as an observer. Gallagher asks Fowler to let Wexler fly in the co-pilot seat. They are attacked by ME-109's and Joe is wounded, Pappy takes over calling Gallagher "Bernie". At HQ General Pritchard asks Harvey Stovall's opinion of Wexler. General Britt is away in Washington and if he is not back, Pritchard will be looking for a new Wing Commander. He is thinking of Wexler or Gallagher. Gallagher is on the sick list so Wexler becomes acting Group Commander, and Gallagher the acting Wing Commander. Wexler wants things run by the book. On the next mission, he takes 3 planes and turns too early and aborts. He calls his Bob Fowler, his co-pilot "Bernie", and when Sandy questions him, Wexler orders him to stand down and report to the Flight Surgeon when he is back. Later in the Star & Bottle, the pilots celebrate with Wexler and he makes a good show of it. He arm wrestles Captain Banazek and wins.
- Col. Gallagher agrees to take orders from a brutal British Major leading his commandos to destroy an advanced radar facility, after his B-17 is shot down.
- Continuous stressful missions have made the men of 918th extremely fatigued, and put their planes in very bad shape with even more missions to come.
- Lt. Gen. Max Gallagher, pushing a promotion for his son Joe, finds he is only interested in defending a Lt. Colonel who aborted the target, under extreme fire, that no one has been able to reach before.
- Two black U.S. soldiers guarding enemy POWs on an island help Gallagher and his wounded after they bail out, but the good medic in charge, may be hiding a secret.
- A pilot, a major with a 918th, has a murderous hatred for all Germans, and Col. Gallagher must find a way to channel him or stop him.
- A pilot captain suspected of bailing out of plane and leaving his crew to die in a previous mission, may have had a uncontrollable reason for doing so.
- A Russian major aboard a 918th bomber recklessly shoots down a friendly plane from his own country, which causes problems for Gallagher when his force lands at a Russian airbase.
- Col. Gallagher becomes a POW in Germany, when a German admiral helps to rescue him, then reveals plans to kill Hitler and negotiate total surrender to the allies.
- Col. Gallagher protects a lovely resistance leader as spies on the airbase sabotage his planes and equipment, trying to kill her also.
- Gallagher picks up a Norwegian resistance leader who has vital target information, but he insist on taking his little boy alone which gets some of his men killed in the process.
- Sgt. Komansky saves a wounded Col. Gallagher and his crew by landing his plane, but a British reporter wants to exploit that to further her own career.
- A propaganda broadcaster for the Nazis is really a British agent sending coded messages through her over the air piano playing, to help the allies.
- Gallagher is on allied captured base in Belgium in danger of being overran, with a boy that refuses to help him translate a wealth of German documents.
- Maj. Stovall uses tricks and favors to get back on flying status after is son becomes missing in action, against the protests of Gallagher that he is too old.
- Col. Gallagher's damaged plane prematurely releases it bombs over a French town killing the allied leader of the resistance there, and now his daughter plans to kill him.
- A top notch aging bomber pilot is called in to surgically bomb a house of German scientist working on atomic weapon plans, nestled next to a building of allied POW's.
- An pilot Lt. is being pressured by a long time mentor major to promote his great college sport image, when he's much more anxious to fly B-17s.
- Germans are using a hillside as an observation post near a monastery of nuns and children, hopeful the Americans won't bomb their position.
- Three top Pacific fighter pilots make it to the 918th without authorization, and are anxious to get back into air combat no matter what it takes.
- A captain tortured for months by the Nazis, gets back on flying status, but suffers from flashbacks that endangers all the men working with him.
- A lt. colonel in charge of a P-51 fighter group, harbors great anger toward Col. Gallagher when his B-17 mistakenly shoots down one of his planes in battle.
- A bitter commodore given a sea command, orders that the 918th fly without bombs and only spot German u-boats so that his ships can destroy them.
- A Lt. friend who grew up feeling overshadowed by Col. Gallagher, does everything from air stunts to disobeying orders to outshine him.
- A lieutenant, terrified of combat, crashes at take-off killing his copilot, and a thieving Sgt. agrees to cover it up, but later demands he desert with him to a neutral country.
- Gen. Savage is killed when his plane is shot down by a captured B-17, and later, Lt. Col Gallagher shoots down another suspicious B-17 killing 10 Americans.
- Lt. Wilson, a young, inexperienced fighter pilot, is so eager to get his first kill and fit in with his flying mates that he manages to shoot up Gallagher's plane while chasing an enemy fighter. Gallagher is willing to chalk it up to youthful exuberance and let the matter drop, but Sandy takes it personally and makes Wilson's life miserable. To make up for it, Wilson volunteers for a dangerous mission and ends up saving Gallagher's life at great peril to his own. This makes him an instant hero, especially in Sandy's eyes. It also leaves him craving even more attention, but at what risk.
- Gallagher has a German born navigator bomb a hidden factory, and when they're forced to land in a Nazi Camp his accent becomes a liability as the Russians advance.
- With Allied bombing operations stymied by mysteriously improved German radar capabilities, Col. Gallagher becomes involved with a multi-national, multi-service commando mission aimed at knocking out the enemy facilities and stealing the technology for study. The undertaking is put at grave risk, however, by a combination of poor coordination between the different units involved, Nazi spies, and the reluctant participation of a key expert, Captain Deel, who happens to be a problematic acquaintance of Gallagher's from his past. And now Deel is having a fling with the sister of an important British officer involved in the task who is not at all happy about it.
- A strict, unfriendly pilot captain joins the 918th and creates hatred for him by the men, which worsens when he appears to be the only survivor after his plane is shot down.
- A very young corporal with a great gunnery training record is anxious to prove himself, but freezes up during actual combat.
- A British fighter pilot is enlisted to recover parts of a German guided missile that crashed in Sweden intact. But he has become depressed, alcoholic, overbearing and, unfortunately, has an anti-Yank chip on his shoulder.
- Major Parsons has apparently just completed his 25th mission, making him eligible to be rotated back to the States, out of the fighting, something he celebrates with great relish. However, Gallagher has formulated a plan to knock out an exceptionally difficult target, and it requires a pilot with qualifications that match Parson's to a tee. The Major is definitely not inclined to volunteer with a guaranteed return to safety in hand, especially since the assignment has the earmarks of a suicide mission. No amount of persuasion budges him, that is until General Britt discovers a technicality that leaves him at 24 completed missions, instead of 25.
- Gallagher bails out in Switzerland where the underground tries to help him, a woman, and a German soldier claiming to be a deserter, escape.
- Gallagher and his crew are forced to land in occupied Yugoslavia, where he must make a deal with a rebel leader to get help to repair his plane.
- Helping the 918th to use weather patterns to bomb, an attractive meteorologist captain becomes rebellious when her weather plane is shot down.