Comrades In Arms: Captain W.E. Johns

A volume of short stories featuring Biggles, Worrals of the W.A.A.F. and 'Gimlet' King. An Oriental Assignment: (Gimlet and Biggles): Gimlet, Cub, Copper and Trapper are asked to go to French Indo-China to collect an unusual form of Hevea braziliensis, or rubber tree. Sir Lionel Radnor had cultivated a strain of sufficient hardiness to be grown in a temperate climate. He destroyed all but 20 seeds, which he hid, then died under torture by the Japanese without revealing where the seeds are hidden. British Intelligence has discovered the hiding place and Gimlet's team, together with Biggles and Ginger, are sent to retrieve the precious seeds. On The Home Front: (Worrals of the W.A.A.F.): The authorities believe that Aircraftwoman Doris Marchant died by drowning but her friend Norma Day is convinced she was murdered and sends a report which makes its way to higher headquarters. Air Commodore Raymond sends Worrals and Frecks to investigate. Thunder Over Germany: (Biggles): Cadet Corporal Peter Masters of the Air Training Corps thinks he knows the location of a secret German fuel depot in the Black Forest. Fortunately, Air Commodore Raymond and Biggles are willing to listen to him. The Chance Of A Lifetime: A story of U-boat warfare. Seventeen year old Jack Carrington lives on Trinidad and while exploring a nearby island, discovers a German U-boat secretly refuelling. Jack must get to the Fleet Air Arm base to raise the alarm. A Night Out: A sabotage story. Pilot Officer Kazi Mahomet meets up again with his old childhood friend, Flying Officer Lance Lorimer. Lance is now a operational saboteur in Germany and on a quick run over to Germany to blow up a railway bridge, the pair must evade Germans on the ground and outrun German planes to make it back to England. A Routine Job: A commando story. When fifteen year old Hubert Fairfax is rescued from a canoe on the Mediterranean Sea he has an interesting story to tell. His father, working in Rome at the outbreak of war, has been interned and Hubert, fluent in English and Italian, was forced to join a Fascist intelligence gathering group. And when Hubert manages to steal the plans for a new secret German submarine base, Colonel 'Buster' Brown of 'Buster's Bulldogs' asks him to be a scout on the commando raid on the base.

Note: As far as can be determined, this is the only publication of the 'Worrals' story.