Battle Stories #6

Two American servicemen—a Marine and an Army soldier—escape from a Red prison camp in Korea by commandeering enemy vehicles and fighting their way through hostile territory toward friendly lines. Bickering constantly despite their perilous journey, the pair must navigate past enemy patrols, incoming fire, and their own wits to make it home alive.

Captain Lewis Millett of the 27th Regiment earned the Congressional Medal of Honor for his extraordinary courage in Korea, from leading the first major American bayonet charge since the Civil War to daring rescue missions behind enemy lines. This account spotlights one harrowing episode when Millett volunteered to defend a downed fighter pilot in a frozen rice paddy, armed only with his carbine and the promise of extraction—a decision that tested his resolve against overwhelming odds. A portrait of bravery "above and beyond the call of duty," this 1952 war story captures what made Millett legendary among his men.

During the brutal Korean War campaign to capture the heavily fortified Plasma Peak, Sergeant Sutton and Private Sackett lead their platoon through a costly series of assaults against entrenched Communist forces. After months of failed attacks and a brutal winter standoff, the arrival of spring and a devastating air bombardment finally seem to tip the scales in the Americans' favor—but as the platoon pushes into the mountain's hollowed-out interior, Sutton begins to sense something isn't quite right about the enemy's surrender.

Private Puggo Wilson is a sharp machine gunner with a talent for trouble—when he's not manning his gun, he's racking up disciplinary charges that have Lieutenant Burch ready to throw the book at him. Fed up with rear-echelon life and mediocre chow, Puggo stows away on an ammo truck headed to the front lines, where he finds himself suddenly thrown into combat with a new company. What starts as a chaotic few days of misfires and close calls takes an unexpected turn when his unit gets pinned down by enemy fire from a cave with no ammo left—and Puggo decides it's time to put his nerve to the test.