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Originally published in the June, 1934 issue of Operator 5TM
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Copyright г 1934 by Popular Publications Inc.
Copyright renewed (c) 1962 and assigned to Agrosy Communications, Inc.
All rights reserved. Licensed to Vintage New Media
Operator 5 is a trademark of Argosy Communications, Inc.
By CURTIS STEELE
One moment good-will bound the United States and the great Power across the sea . . . the
next, shells screamed their death wails into Coast homes and factories. No citizen was safe
from the bloody holocaust when the Yellow Empire struck without warning from the Pacific.
With fiendish artifice the world was turned against us. And somewhere in this country, covertly
completing the terrifying work of wholesale destruction, lurked the ruthless agent of the
invading hordes. Operator 5 alone guessed the dread secret and matched his individual might
against a million war-drunk terrorists-while the nation trembled on the brink of red wreckage!
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CHAPTER ONE
Destruction on Parade
In the blue waters of San Diego Bay, off the
California coast, the naval fleets of two great
world powers were drawn into review formation.
Smoke poured darkly into the basalt sky from
the funnels of parading capital ships, cruisers,
destroyers and aircraft carriers while low-dipped
submarines trailed alongside. Their big guns
sparkled in the clear sunlight and rainbowed
spindrift floated across the spotless decks where
immaculately uniformed crews stood at stiff
attention. In the wind whipped the Stars and
Stripes of the United States and the brilliant
tricolor of the Yellow Empire.
Side by side in the bay there lay at anchor
the Houston, flagship of the Pacific Fleet of the
United States Navy, and the Noa, flagship of the
United Fleets of the Yellow Empire. Before them
in majestic review was passing the greatest
display of armed sea-power ever witnessed in the
history of the world.
The eyes of the world were turned upon the
spectacle-a sight both reassuring and terrifying.
From the California coast countless yachts,
sailboats, motorboats and sight-seeing steamers
had put out, carrying thousands eager to witness
the display. From Catalina and the Santa Barbara
Islands hundreds of other small vessels had
sailed. From the shore thousands more peered
through field glasses. It seemed that the whole
world had paused to watch.
To the millions living inland in the United
States, and to the millions living in the far-away
Yellow Empire, the picture was carried by the