Although I do not have the actual magazine, I did manage to find one of the stories from it. The story is entitled Captains Venomous. The basic story is about two pilots who have two very different ways of fighting the Japanese. One has a charge-right-in philosophy, and the other has a very cold, calculating manner of attacking Japanese planes.
I'll quote some interesting passages.
1. 'I'll always have enough and to spare for the murdering Nips, Zane!' said Croft. 'See what they did today? Shot down a passenger plane, filled with women and children, out of Australia. They knew it wasn't armed, must have seen who the passengers were.'
The term 'murdering Nips' gives a good idea of what the attitude was towards the Japanese. The reference to shooting down a plane reflects the types of atrocities that the Japanese military was committing in the war
theater.
2. The story refers to the Bell Aircobra plane, which was in use at the start of the war, but was no match at all for the Japanese Zeros.
As expected, the pilots make mincemeat out of the Japanese planes that they get into a fight with.
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