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    Dusty Ayres and His Battle Birds
    Numbering continued from Battle Birds, an aviation pulp first published in Dec 1932. Title was converted to an SF format for these 12 issues, then discontinued. A separately numbered revival of Battle Birds, in its original format, was published from 1940 to 1944. All the stories in the SF issues were set against the same background of a future invasion of the U.S., though the shorts featured none of the series characters from the lead novels. We have listed Robert Sidney Bowen as author on all the stories, though the shorts rarely carried by-lines. The contents pages were ambiguously laid out, but implied that Bowen wrote everything.

    • Publishers:
      • Popular Publications, Inc.; Chicago: Dusty Ayres and His Battle Birds.

    • Editors:

    Battle Cry [Volume 2 Number 3, December 1957] ed. Theodore S. Hecht (Stanley Publications, 35¢, 76pp, quarto) []
    Details supplied by Richard Newsome from Table of Contents.
    • · Executive Editor · Eric Jonathan · el
    • · Associate Editor · Chester Cohen · el
    • 6 · Whatever Happened to—? · [uncredited] · ms
    • 8 · At Ease · [uncredited] · hu
    • 10 · GI Sucker Traps · [uncredited] · ms
    • 12 · Secret War Between the Services · George Hannegan · ar
    • 17 · He Built a Better Mousetrap · Dale Varney · ar; “The inside story of the Battle of the Bulge”.
    • 20 · Hill of the Damned · James M. Perry · ar; “The Commies had it covered with red hot lead”.
    • 22 · Down to the Sea in Slips · [uncredited] · pi; featuring Toma Borden.
    • 26 · Encounter at Quelpart Island · Jack L. Waters · ar; “The sub went in with deck guns blazing”.
    • 28 · The Horror That Lies Ahead · Howard L. Oleck · ar; “A military historian looks at the war of the future”.
    • 32 · Carnage at the Tenaru · Lee O. Miller · ar; “The Japs and the jungle at Guadalcanal”.
    • 36 · I Prevented 1000 Casualties a Day · David Lucas · ar; “The Army can’t operate without its Pro Station”.
    • 38 · Winged Terrors of the Night Time Sky · Henry Baldenheimer · ar; “The U.S. Marine Corps bred our Night-Fighters”.
    • 40 · Brother Like a Cross · Gilbert S. Farrar · ar; “Heroism on a Korean POW death march”.
    • 42 · The Rape of Heilbronn · Charles Watson · ar

    Battle Stories:   (about)
    The title on the cover was given as Fawcett’s Battle Stories for the entire run but the title in the Table of Contents was simply Battle Stories until July 1929.

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