Battle Attack #3
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free"Battle Attack" #3 is a war comic anthology featuring frontline military combat stories. One story depicts an anti-aircraft gun crew engaging enemy aircraft, followed by a submarine attack on a cargo vessel, with the submarine later being targeted and destroyed. Another story, titled "A G.I.'s Equipment," focuses on a soldier named Bailey learning from a superior officer about the essential gear that defines a soldier's readiness—his helmet, rifle, and dog tags—emphasizing these three items as the most important parts of military equipment.
Pvt. Angie Lange, a Southern soldier unaccustomed to Korea's brutal cold, struggles to stay warm and functional in the Korean hills while his buddies search for an extra blanket to help him survive the freezing conditions. When a Chinese offensive forces the unit into combat, Angie and his fellow soldiers must fight to retake a strategic ridge—a mission that will determine whether he ever finds the warmth he's been desperately seeking. This 1955 war story captures the clash between personal survival and the demands of battle in the frozen terrain of Korea.
Private Tom Parker gets his baptism by fire on his first killer patrol—a harrowing night mission behind enemy lines where a green soldier must learn fast to survive encounters with enemy armor, machine-gun fire, and pillbox fortifications. As Parker transforms from a frightened recruit into a seasoned veteran through the brutal lessons of combat, he discovers that the cycle of war continues relentlessly, with fresh faces always arriving to take their turn under fire.
When a Liberty ship breaks from convoy to make a solo dash to Murmansk, the crew discovers that what looked like an easy run becomes anything but once German aircraft and a U-boat have them in their sights. The ship's captain and crew must use every trick in the book to survive attacks from the air and sea and reach the Russian port. This 1955 war story proves that in combat, no job is as simple as it seems from the sidelines.
When a magician-turned-soldier nicknamed "Houdini" and his buddy Brooklyn go on a reconnaissance mission into enemy territory during the Korean War, they're captured by Communist forces and bound to a tree at an enemy command post. With his unit's fate hanging in the balance and his life depending on his wits, Houdini must put his sleight-of-hand skills to their ultimate test to escape and warn his comrades of the coming attack.
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