Unto Him That Hath
by Lester del Rey
After losing a leg fighting the Pan-Asians, Captain Michael Dane returns home to his
brilliant physicist girlfriend, his father, and a college professor/general who wants his
help in swiping technology from the future. But when they grab a future fighter plane,
his father is seemingly sucked into the future and his girlfriend may be a spy.
The government was convinced enough to finance Project Swipe, so it can’t be too crazy.
We’re actually reaching into the future. Look, we’re losing the war—we know that.
Pan-Asia is matching our technology and beating our manpower. But somewhere ahead,
they’ve got things that Pan-Asia can’t have—and we're going to get some of that.
“Unto Him That Hath” by Lester del Rey, in Space
Science Fiction, November 1952.