Army War Heroes #13

Corporal Jack Hummel is a soldier with an insatiable curiosity about weapons—and the skill to use them when it counts. When German artillery observers dug into a hillside begin systematically destroying his platoon, Hummel seizes the chance to take the fight to them with a flamethrower and his wits, leading a dangerous night mission up the mountain with PFC Olenchek at his side. Watch as this Dutch-born G.I. turns his obsession with every gun, grenade, and explosive in the arsenal into a one-man arsenal against the Nazi forces holding the high ground.

Sergeant Folsom and his squad earned a shameful reputation when they broke under enemy fire, abandoning their position and leaving casualties in their wake—and now, scattered among other units and branded "the Bug-Out Boys," Folsom must prove whether he's truly yellow or simply a soldier haunted by one terrible moment of panic. When a dangerous new mission calls for volunteers willing to hold a position no matter the cost, Folsom sees a chance at redemption that could silence the accusations forever—if he and his men can find the courage to answer.

A green Army lieutenant stumbles through the Saipan jungle searching for his unit, blissfully unaware he's walking straight into Japanese lines in "Saipan Nightmare." As machine-gun fire and grenades bracket him at every turn, Lt. Eugene Boland lurches from one near-death experience to the next, his inexperience masked only by extraordinary luck—until he ducks for cover in the one place that might finally test even his horseshoe-laden fortune. Sometimes survival isn't about skill; sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the wrong time.

American soldiers have repeatedly faced new kinds of warfare across generations—from the gas attacks of World War I through the armor and tactics of World War II, the human-wave assaults of Korea, and now the guerrilla insurgency of Vietnam. Each time, the enemy has believed American troops too soft or inexperienced to master their style of fighting, and each time the G.I.s have proven them catastrophically wrong. This story traces how adaptation and determination under fire have defined American combat across nearly fifty years of conflict.