Army Attack #38

Sergeant Redstone and Major Art Morton are dispatched by Army Intelligence to help neutralize a massive German cave complex hidden in the mountains near Kortschaafen—a fortified underground stronghold bristling with 88mm guns, machine nests, and elite S.S. troops. When a frontal assault proves suicidal, Morton devises a daring plan: a diversionary air strike on the main entrance combined with a smoke screen will cover two volunteers as they infiltrate the ventilation shafts atop the hill. With Sergeant Nick and the Major gearing up for the perilous climb, the stage is set for an audacious assault on one of Hitler's last bastions.

During the Korean War, American forces faced a deadly adversary in the Soviet-built T-34 tank—a formidable machine that had proven itself in combat since 1941 and impressed even the Germans with its design. When U.S. forces encounter these armored opponents, they're forced to deploy their newest postwar weapon, the General Patton M-48 tank, to match the enemy's firepower on equal terms. This action-packed tale showcases the technical superiority and raw power of Cold War-era armor in brutal head-to-head combat.

An infantryman stuck in the mud and mire of Korea begins to envy the crews of the tanks rolling past—until a disabled tank and a desperate situation force him to join their ranks and trade his rifle for a machine gun. When Chinese MiGs screech down from the sky and enemy bunkers pin down his unit, he discovers that life inside armor comes with its own brutal cost. By the story's end, he'll have to decide whether the "easier" ride he thought he wanted is worth the price tank crews actually pay.

Private First Class Shorty Hurd gets his wish for a bazooka when Chinese forces break through in North Korea in December 1950—and he seizes the chance to pick up the weapon and a cache of rockets abandoned by a fallen soldier. What follows is a whirlwind of tank-busting and supply-truck destruction as Shorty becomes the rear guard's one-man arsenal, holding back the enemy advance long enough for his unit to escape the trap.

Captain Halloran, a skilled sniper, takes on a dangerous assignment in 1944 to eliminate General Yagushi—the "Black Wind"—before he can orchestrate a massacre of American prisoners at a Philippine POW camp. After successfully completing his mission and evading capture, Halloran is redirected to South America on a new covert operation: protecting Senor Obregon from Nazi operatives who are threatening to force the neutral nation toward the Axis. Armed with his trusted rifle and operating from a hidden vantage point, Halloran must neutralize the threat before the conspirators can silence Obregon—but when the final confrontation arrives, the sniper discovers there's a side of combat he's been missing all along.

When enemy shells strike a naval vessel and fires rage through its corridors, the damage control specialists spring into action—racing against infernos and unexploded ordnance to save their ship from catastrophe. These unsung heroes brave gasoline-fed flames and ticklish bomb-defusal work in the ship's vital spaces, often working mere inches from certain disaster. In "Damage Control," the 1965 war story from Army Attack #38, witness the men who handle the jobs nobody else can when the stakes couldn't be higher.