The Hell-Cat Squadron: Cyclops of the Skies
By Alexis Rossoff
THE order came direct from G.H.Q.: “Send One Undesirable Pilot.Arrange pilot’s departure from your drome so that he will reach destination not earlier than second hour nor later than third hour after noon, twenty-eighth day this month.” Never was an order complied with more promptly as thirty cursing, rebelious undesirables found themselves thrown together in the doomed, scorched region known by all as Hell’s Half Acre. There, under the command of “Iron” Mike Hilton, himself ostrasized for questioning his superiors, they became the Hell-Cats!
Siberian-born, Russian war veteran Alexis Rossoff started writing air and war fiction stories in the late 1920’s as his eyesight slowly faded away. The adventures in this volume are from 1931 to 1932. After a successful operation to restore his vision in the mid thirties, Rossoff, a self-professed boxing nut, switched from primarily writing air war fiction to writing sports stories.
Stories include:
- “Hell-Cat Harvest,” – Flying Aces, January 1931
- “The Old Man’s Whiskers,” – Flying Aces, February 1931
- “The Hell-Cat’s Kittens,” – Flying Aces, March 1931
- “The Cyclops of the Skies,” – Flying Aces, June1931
- “Rusty Rides the Thunderbolt,” – Flying Aces, December1931
- “The Black Moth,” – Flying Aces, January1932
Plus:
- Bibliography