“HAW-W-W-W-W!” That sound can only mean one thing—that Bachelor of Artifice, Knight of Calamity and an alumnus of Doctor Merlin’s Camelot College for Conjurors is back to vex not only the Germans, but the Americans—the Ninth Pursuit Squadron in particular—as well. Yes it’s the marvel from Boonetown, Iowa himself—Lieutenant Phineas Pinkham!

You all know Phineas “Carbuncle” Pinkham—that past master at throwing the bull. But here’s the story of one time when the bull threw Phineas—a bull named Rittmeister von Holstein!

From the January 1933 number of Flying Aces!

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THIS week we have a story by Syl MacDowell! MacDowell was an inveterate traveler—traveling across and all over the country many times—even living for a time in a trailer. Born June 16,1892, in Denver, Colorado, MacDowell found transitory homes on both coasts when not on the road. He worked as a foreign correspondent for the UPI and a free lance writer and rewrite man on various newspapers in New York and on the West Coast. He had a large following as a magazine columnist and general adviser on matters concerning Western travel, traditions, attractions, and opportunities. Somehow he found the time to also write numerous pulp stories. Although he’s best known for his westerns—the Painted Post series is probably his most well known—he was a regular in the pages of Navy Stories, War Birds, Sky Riders, War Aces, The Lone Eagle, Sky Fighters, and Flying Aces from the late twenties through the mid thirties.

This week we have Sly MacDonald’s “The Sky Salt” from the March 1933 Flying Ace!

“Sky skimmers”—that was what 1st Class Gunner Weaver of the U.S. Navy called the seaplanes that patrolled the English Channel. But that was before a certain morning when an old freighter met up with a U-boat in the choppy seas off the coast of France.

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THIS week we have a story from Raoul Whitfield. Whitfield was a prolific pulp writer primarily known for his hardboiled crime fiction published in the pages of Black Mask, but he was equally adept at lighter fair that might run in the pages of Breezy Stories. We’ve featured a number of his Buck Kent stories that ran in Air Trails, but this time we have a WWI tale!

“Bing” Burks didn’t give the new recruits sent down to the squadron much of a chance. How good could a kiwi be? But he found out when Lt. Dunning found himself at the squadron and on Bing’s bad side—but Bing found out when it counted, that the Lieutenant also wore “Hard-Boiled Wings!” From the August 1929 number of Over The Top.

It was a case of rough meet tough when “Bing” Burks and the fighting newcomer declared war.

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