Battle Squadron #1

Inexperienced Marines face their baptism of fire when they assault a heavily defended island held by entrenched enemy forces. As Hughes and Jerry lead the charge off the landing craft and across the beach, they discover what their sergeant meant about earning the reputation of a gyrene—through brutal combat in caves, grass fields, and under enemy air attacks. By the time replacements arrive to relieve them, these raw recruits have been forged into hardened fighting men who embody the Marine Corps tradition.

A skilled enemy sniper pins down an American patrol, picking off soldiers one by one from his hidden position while the desperate G.I.s search for a way to stop him. As the sergeant devises a daring strategy to flush out his opponent, the real battle becomes a deadly game of wits between two masters of their craft. It takes cunning, nerve, and a deep knowledge of the sniper's own tricks to turn the tables in this tense 1955 war story.

John Rogers ships out to Korea carrying the weight of his father's legendary World War I reputation—Bulls-Eye Rogers, the decorated soldier whose exploits have shadowed him since childhood. As Johnny faces combat for the first time, his father's letters keep reminding him how he'll never measure up, turning the fight against the enemy into a personal battle to prove himself. When the Chinese break through the lines, Johnny gets his chance to show what he's made of, but the cost of living up to a hero's name may be higher than he imagined.

A veteran soldier dismissed as too old for modern warfare stumbles upon a German ambush and realizes his lifetime of hard-won combat skills are exactly what's needed to stop it. With nothing but his rifle and decades of battlefield cunning, Sam uses tactics learned from decades past to hold off the enemy and warn his commanding officer before the trap can spring. Sometimes the old ways prove the most effective.