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Battle Squadron #2

Jun 1955 · Stanley Morse · 0.10 USD
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Battle Squadron #2 is an anthology featuring military combat stories. "Veteran!" follows a hardened Marine sergeant who takes a young, inexperienced replacement under his wing during a nighttime guard duty operation, where the veteran's expertise and understanding help the untested soldier survive an encounter with enemy forces. Another story features a test pilot flying a new jet-powered aircraft, with conflict arising between the pilot's desire to push the experimental plane to its limits and military command's caution regarding the million-dollar aircraft. "The Meter Reader" depicts Lieutenant Woody Miller piloting a B-29 bomber nicknamed "The Meter Reader," which successfully completes a dangerous bombing run despite facing fourteen gun batteries and intense anti-aircraft fire.

Contains 4 stories
His Brother's Keeper!
6 pp · War

Timmy Ryan resents his older brother Bill's constant protection during their service together in the Korean hills, desperate to prove he's grown up and capable of fighting on his own. When the brothers are assigned to a dangerous patrol targeting an enemy supply depot, Timmy seizes the chance to demonstrate his courage—but a single moment changes everything, forcing him to understand what his brother's vigilance truly meant. A powerful war story about the bonds between brothers, and the price of looking after those we love.

Operation: Exterminator
5 pp · War

When Allied shipping losses in the Baltic reach a critical peak, Air Operations launches a desperate hunt for the hidden German U-boat base supplying the wolf-packs—and a lucky hunch points them toward Hamburg. After aerial bombing proves useless against the target's reinforced concrete defenses, the mission falls to the Navy and a team of frogmen who must infiltrate the heavily guarded pen under cover of darkness and plant explosives to end the threat once and for all. This wartime tale follows Operation: Exterminator from its first reconnaissance flights through its final, daring phase beneath enemy waters.

Hot Ship
7 pp · Aviation, War

When a test pilot program pushes a revolutionary vertical-landing jet fighter to its limits, Major Armstrong drives his team through failure and tragedy toward the ultimate trial—but the arrival of a cocky new pilot threatens to derail everything. As the sleek FU-104 climbs toward the sound barrier for its most critical test, man and machine will face forces neither can predict, with only engineering calculations and nerves of steel standing between success and disaster. In this story, the real battlefield isn't the distant war front—it's the proving ground where tomorrow's weapons are born.

The Meter Reader
6 pp · Aviation, War
Lt. Woody Miller

Lt. Woody Miller pilots a stripped-down B-29 bomber on a solo, high-stakes mission over North Korea to destroy a critical enemy supply route—but the lone "heavy" becomes a sitting duck when enemy MiGs spot him in the air. Outnumbered and outgunned, Miller has to rely on cunning flying and the help of friendly ground forces to survive the gauntlet and reach his target, all while proving that a skilled pilot can do incredible things no matter what aircraft he's flying.

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CGC 4.5 · 1 in census $769*
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Full credits

artist, inker Tony Mortellaro

Reprints

↩ Reprints Battle Cry #2 (1952)

Reprinted in Navy Task Force #[nn] (1955), Battle Squadron #[2] (1956), Battle Squadron Bumper Comic #[2] (1956), Battle Heroes #1 (1966)

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