Battle Stories #15

Private Jim Hammond nurses a fierce hatred for the Navy—until a patrol he's assigned to gets pinned down by Red artillery and infantry near Pyongyang, and Captain Rocky Beach's Cutlass fighters arrive overhead to turn the tide. When Hammond realizes the Navy has saved his life, his contempt crumbles, and he learns that all branches of the armed forces fight as one.

A 1964 look at Korea's ancient history of fierce independence and bloody conflict, from its legendary rulers and innovations to the brutal mountain ridges where American soldiers—farm boys, fishermen, and city kids alike—are fighting and dying alongside their United Nations allies. This two-page story weaves together Korea's two thousand years of recorded history with the present-day cost of the ongoing war, painting a portrait of a proud land whose future hangs in the balance.

When a USO performer named Miss Foley volunteers to boost the spirits of a surrounded Marine battalion, Mike Battles flies her in—but enemy fire brings their helicopter down behind enemy lines. Stranded and outnumbered, the two must fight their way through a patrol while hoping the battalion can hold on long enough for rescue.

This non-fiction account explores how the United States defends itself against submarine threats, tracing the history of undersea warfare from the Revolutionary War through the atomic age. From the cutting-edge K-1 submarine designed to hunt enemy subs to radar planes, blimps, and destroyers working in coordinated defense, the story reveals the multi-layered network of detection and destruction systems protecting American shores against potential atomic-armed attack from beneath the waves.

When a downed pilot finds himself pinned in enemy sights during the Korean War, Captain Jet Powers races to his rescue—but the real battle unfolds inside an ancient temple where two feuding gods seem to hold the fate of men in their stone hands. As communist soldiers close in and a fanatical priestess calls upon the war god for vengeance, Powers and his fellow airman must fight their way out of a situation where the line between superstition and salvation grows dangerously thin.