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PIRATE BREED

 “Hey, Bluey!”

   — The length and breadth of the China Seas that’s all he was called — Bluey. Gold-smuggling, gun-running, he was a tough guy who took all kinds of chances in his fast old converted MTB to make a quick dollar.

   When the Australian Navy had a tough job to do and needed a guy who knew the China Seas backwards, had smuggling contacts on nearly every island, could handle a gun and take a chance in a thousand — did they look among their own officers? Did they blazes!

   “Hey, Bluey!”

Story: Spence

Inside Art: Cecil Rigby

Cover: Lopez Espi

Originally No 234 from 1966

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MIGHTY MIKE

Mighty Mike Mansell, top fighter ace, was the guy chosen as test pilot for the fastest aircraft produced for the RAF. The plane was so top secret that it didn’t even have a name as Mike put it through its paces over the remote north of Scotland.

   Yet, despite all the security, the Nazis believed they could get their hands on the plane…and no wonder they were confident. Flying for the Luftwaffe was Mike’s identical twin brother…

Story: Cyril Walker

Inside Art: Cam Kennedy

Cover: Ken Barr

Originally No 417 from 1970, re-issued as No 1355 in 1979

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Swastika Squadron

A bunch of RAF men fighting in planes with swastikas? Traitors, surely, flying German kites?

   Well, no. they were a group of Blenheim crews for whom a ferry flight turned into a fight for survival in planes carrying the sign of the crooked cross.

Story: Norman Adams

Inside Art: Keith Page

Cover: Keith Page

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MONGREL CREW

They were a mongrel crew all right. Half-a-dozen men lumped together in a Mitchell bomber for the wrong reason — a propaganda stunt. Though each had a score to settle with the enemy, they were not really expected to fight.

   But, when push came to shove, the mongrels would show they had a bite to match any pedigree hound.

Story: Mac Macdonald

Inside Art: Carlos Pino

Cover: Carlos Pino

The big story to go with these issues is not the cracking art and tales from some legends of Commando’s past, but the official release of our apps and digital subscription which will secure the Commando’s future.