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	<title>Age of Aces &#187; Three Mosquitoes</title>
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		<title>&#8220;Earthbound Ace&#8221; by Ralph Oppenheim</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2018 10:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[1933]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[December 1933]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Auto Racer Takes to the Sky and Finds That He Has a Lot to Learnâ€”But . . . .]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>THIS week we have another <img src="http://www.ageofaces.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/SF3312.jpg" align="right" height="144" vspace="5" hspace="5"> great story from the pen of Ralph Oppenheim. Best known in these parts for <a href="http://www.ageofaces.net/our-books/the-three-mosquitoes-the-wizard-ace/" target="_blank">The Three Mosquitoes</a>, he wrote many other stories of the air and several ripping detective yarns. Here Mr. Oppenheim gives us a story of Lieutenant Steve Bentley who was a race car driver before the war like the great Rickenbacker. But unlike Rickenbacker, Lt. Bentley has a problem with take-off. So used to driving race cars, he couldn&#8217;t let go of his instinctsâ€”he would hold the stick back, keep the tail down, making the speeding plane hug the earth. He could never get it through his head that a Spad didn&#8217;t have to go ninety miles an hour to take off, that flying speed was no more than seventy. Once in the air he was as good as they come.</p>
<p>When Bentley finds out his friend has gone out on a suicide mission, he jumps in his plane and goes after him. Here, his proclivity to drive a plane like a race car comes in handy for getting through the German ground defenses and hopefully saving the day! From the December 1933 issue of <em>Sky Fighters</em> it&#8217;s &#8220;Earthbound Ace!&#8221;</p>
<p><em>An Auto Racer Takes to the Sky and Finds That He Has a Lot to Learnâ€”But . . . .</em></p>
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<li><strong><a href="http://www.ageofaces.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/earthbound.pdf">Download &#8220;Earthbound Ace&#8221;</a></strong> (December 1933, <em>Sky Fighters</em>)</li>
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		<title>&#8220;Wings of the Brave&#8221; by Harold F. Cruickshank</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2017 10:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[1939]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harold F. Cruickshank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[June 1939]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ralph Oppenheim]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This wasn't the ordinary flame of Spandau Fire menacing the American Sky Devil's tailâ€”but the fearsome blaze of the Baron Von Ryter's world-famous battle insignia!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="justify">SKY DEVIL<img src="http://www.ageofaces.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/SD3906.jpg" align="right" height="144" vspace="5" hspace="5">  flew through the Hell Skies of 29 adventures in the pages of <em>Dare-Devil Aces</em> from 1932-1935. Cruickshank returned to the savior of the Western Front in six subsequent stories several years later. The first two were in the pages of <em>Sky Devils</em> (June 1939) and <em>Fighting Aces</em> (March 1940). The other four ran in <em>Sky Fighters</em> (1943-1946); and like Oppenheim had done with his Three Mosquitoes, so Cruickshank did with Sky Devilâ€”he moved him to the Second World War where Bill Dawe changes his name to get into the air service and flys along side his son!</p>
<p>Here we have Sky Devil&#8217;s first appearance after his run in <em>Dare-Devil Aces</em> in the pages of the aptly named <em>Sky Devils</em>. Bill Dawe works a hunch as only he can that an old chateau that is supposedly neutral ground between the Allies and the Boche is actually a front for German forces! From June 1939 it&#8217;s &#8220;Wings of the Brave!&#8221;</p>
<p><em>This wasn&#8217;t the ordinary flame of Spandau Fire menacing the American Sky Devil&#8217;s tailâ€”but the fearsome blaze of the Baron Von Ryter&#8217;s world-famous battle insignia!</em></p>
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<li><strong><a href="http://www.ageofaces.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/wingsofthebrave.pdf">Download &#8220;Wings of the Brave&#8221;</a></strong> (June 1939, <em>Sky Devils</em>)</li>
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<p align="justify">For more great tales <img src="http://www.ageofaces.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/skydevil2_th.jpg" align="left" height="144" vspace="5" hspace="5"> of Sky Devil and his Brood by Harold F. Cruickshank, check out our new volume of his collected adventures in <a href="http://www.ageofaces.net/our-books/sky-devil-ace-of-devils/" target="_blank"><strong>Sky Devil: Ace of Devils</strong></a>â€”Nowhere along the Western Front could you find a more feared crew, both in their element and out. The Sky Devil and his Brood could always be counted on to whip Germanyâ€™s best Aces, out-scrap entire squadrons of Boche killers, or tackle not one, but two crazed Barons with an Egyptology fetish! But what happens when they find themselves up in a dirigible fighting a fleet of ghost zeppelins, or down in the English Channel battling ferocious deep water beasts, or even behind enemy lines dealing with a crazed Major Petrie? Plenty, and you can read it all here! Pick up your copy today at all the usual outletsâ€”<a href="http://adventurehouse.com/shop/" target="_blank">Adventure House</a>, <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/mikechomkobooks/Home" target="_blank">Mike Chomko Books</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com" target="_blank">Amazon</a>!</p>
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