Monday, July 6, 2026

NOTES - JULY 2026

Honours:

Pilot Bill Barnes is almost certainly awarded the Victoria Cross for blowing up a Nazi gas stockpile. He also gets a pie. (Bill Barnes, America's Air Ace Comics 004, 1941)


The Liberty Scouts are given nonspecific (but secret) medals for saving NYC from being destroyed. Strut also gets a pie. (Liberty Scouts Comics 002, 1941)

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