Age of Aces » Captain Lew Vance http://www.ageofaces.net The Best in Air-War Fiction Fri, 01 May 2026 10:00:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 en hourly 1 “Torture Drome” by Harold F. Cruickshank http://www.ageofaces.net/2018/04/torture-drome-by-harold-f-cruickshank/ http://www.ageofaces.net/2018/04/torture-drome-by-harold-f-cruickshank/#comments Fri, 06 Apr 2018 10:00:27 +0000 David http://www.ageofaces.net/?p=7203 THIS week we have a story by another of our favorite authors—Harold F. Cruickshank! Cruickshank is popular in these parts for the thrilling exploits of The Sky Devil from the pages of Dare-Devil Aces, as well as those of The Sky Wolf in Battle Aces and The Red Eagle in Battle Birds. He wrote innumerable stories of war both on the ground and in the air. Here we have a story of brothers—half-brothers both assigned to 17 Drome. The younger brother, Cal, is posted as A.W.O.L., but Lew, the older of the two fears Cal was attempting to assist his older brother in his assignment to get the dreaded Baron von Hertzog and some awful fate has befallen him. Leading Lew to absent himself from his drome without authority to try and find the kid and save his hide. From the June 1934 issue of Sky Fighters it’s “Torture Drome”—

Captain Lew Vance Braves Boche Horror As He Flies Hell-Bent into Hunland to Vindicate the Honor of His Half-Brother!

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