Young Bill Daniel was a fine Hurricane pilot. He welcomed his posting to Burma and the chance to shoot it out with Jap Zeros high over the jungles. But it wasn't to be as simple as that. Soon after he took off with Mike Bell, his squadron leader, Bill found out why 1066 squadron was known throughout the RAF as "Suicide Squadron"...
Introduction
Cool, calculating characters have found homes in Commando stories since the very earliest issues were published. Sometimes on the side of the angels, sometimes not. In this instance the cool, calculating Squadron Leader is definitely on the side of...no, find out for yourself! Read the book.
That's once you've got beyond Ken Barr's accomplished full colour cover, for there's a lot to admire in Snr Ortiz's black and white work. He didn't do a great number of Commandos (we reckon 19), but he was in at the start with No 5 and finished with Feb 78's No 1202 - a good run by anyone's standards.
Calum Laird, Commando Editor
Zero Basher originally Commando No 136 (October 1964), re-issued as No 703 (December 1972)
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