Age of Aces » Uncategorized http://www.ageofaces.net The Best in Air-War Fiction Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:00:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 en hourly 1 “Bargains for Blois” by Joe Archibald http://www.ageofaces.net/2023/06/bargains-for-blois-by-joe-archibald/ http://www.ageofaces.net/2023/06/bargains-for-blois-by-joe-archibald/#comments Fri, 30 Jun 2023 10:00:07 +0000 David http://www.ageofaces.net/?p=11797 “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!

When Phineas’ joke on Colonel Guilfoyle gets the Old Man in trouble, he concocts an elaborate plan to try and get Garrity and the Ninth Pursuit Squadron off the hook. From the July 1931 Flying Aces, it’s Joe Archibald’s “Bargains fro Blois!”

It was a dastardly trick! On account of it, Colonel Guilfoyle, G.H.Q.’s weightiest chair-warmer, threatened to bust the Old Man. Somehow connected with it was the Old Man’s promise to make a spark plug-cleaner out of Phineas “Carbuncle” Pinkham. And we don’t blame either of them–do you?

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