Army War Heroes #10

Six American soldiers dropped into the Italian Alps have a critical mission: set up radio transmitters to guide air strikes against Nazi positions on Monte Nessi. When Cpl. Nick Kehoe scouts the mountain and discovers a massive enemy encampment, he calls in the bombers—but now he's caught between the Nazi ski-troops closing in and the very aircraft meant to support him. With nowhere to run but down a nearly vertical glacier face, Kehoe will have to use every ounce of nerve and skill to survive the encounter and rejoin his team.

PFC Lawrence Frey has spent six months in the ETO as a truck driver, convinced he's a coward for not volunteering for frontline combat duty—but his knack for getting supply runs through to the fighting men has earned him a dangerous new assignment. When sixteen wounded soldiers are stranded behind enemy lines, a general calls on Frey to drive an armored half-track through Nazi-held territory to bring them back, and the man who's been ashamed of his own fear discovers what his commanding officers already know: real courage isn't the absence of being scared. From "The Coward's Seat," this 1965 war story shows that sometimes the bravest seat in the fight isn't where you expect to find it.

Sgt. Farrel has spent years stuck in a stateside posting, denied his repeated requests for combat duty, so he takes matters into his own hands—forging papers to hitch a ride to Okinawa and finally see action. Once he reaches the battle-torn island and joins a rifle company on the front lines, his three years of pent-up frustration drive him to prove himself, though his eagerness may cost him more than he bargained for.

PFC. Eddie Clayton abandons his foxhole in panic during a brutal night of Japanese attacks, and when daylight breaks, he's separated from his unit and hunted through the jungle. Forced to overcome his terror and think strategically, Clayton discovers that surviving his moment of maximum fear has stripped away his hesitation—leaving him calm and deadly as he faces the enemy alone. When he finally reconnects with his outfit, he's a different soldier, one who's conquered the fear that nearly destroyed him.