Age of Aces » Buck Manley http://www.ageofaces.net The Best in Air-War Fiction Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:00:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 en hourly 1 “Buck Manley, Balloon Buster” by Lloyd Leonard Howard http://www.ageofaces.net/2023/05/buck-manley-balloon-buster-by-lloyd-leonard-howard/ http://www.ageofaces.net/2023/05/buck-manley-balloon-buster-by-lloyd-leonard-howard/#comments Fri, 12 May 2023 10:00:35 +0000 David http://www.ageofaces.net/?p=11696 THIS week we have another Buck Manley story by Lloyd Leonard Howard from the pages of Street & Smith’s short lived Over The Top magazine. Over The Top was a magazine featuring war stories by the likes of Arthur Guy Empey, George Bruce, Raoul Whitfield among others. One of those others being Lloyd Leonard Howard who had stories in about a dozen of the 21 issues. Several of them featured a pilot by the name of Lieutenant Buck Manley and his pal Lieutenant “Stubby” Davis. For some reason or other, enemy craft were scarce since the St. Mihiel drive and although Boche crates were few and far between there were still Boche observation Balloons to down! From the December 1928 issue of Over The Top, it’s Lloyd Leonard Howard’s “Buck Manley, Balloon Buster!”

There are certain things you can’t explain to G.H.Q.—sometimes you just have to show ’em!

]]> http://www.ageofaces.net/2023/05/buck-manley-balloon-buster-by-lloyd-leonard-howard/feed/ 0 “Buck Manley Goes Home” by Lloyd Leonard Howard http://www.ageofaces.net/2023/01/buck-manley-goes-home-by-lloyd-leonard-howard/ http://www.ageofaces.net/2023/01/buck-manley-goes-home-by-lloyd-leonard-howard/#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2023 11:00:46 +0000 David http://www.ageofaces.net/?p=11568 THIS week we have a story by Lloyd Leonard Howard from the pages of Street & Smith’s short lived Over The Top magazine. Over The Top was a magazine featuring war stories by the likes of Arthur Guy Empey, George Bruce, Raoul Whitfield among others. One of those others being Lloyd Leonard Howard who had stories in about a dozen of the 21 issues. Several of them featured a pilot by the name of Lieutenant Buck Manley and his pal Lieutenant “Stubby” Davis. Stubby doesn’t appear in this first story where Buck, separated from his flight in enemy hell skies, tries to get back to his home base—or at least friendlier skies—before his plane and his luck can go no further!

From the October 1928 issue of Over The Top, it’s Lloyd Leonard Howard’s “Buck Manley Goes Home!”

His motor going bad, ground machine guns barking at him and enemy planes swooping down. Buck had only headwork and grim courage to rely upon.

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