Battlefield Action #48
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis issue contains two war stories. "Desert Danger" depicts Allied soldiers under fire in a desert combat zone, with enemy forces attacking from above and ground positions. "Jungle Rot" follows soldiers in the Pacific theater during World War II who are fighting Japanese forces in a jungle island setting; the narrative emphasizes the psychological and physical toll of jungle warfare, including disease and combat trauma, while depicting a soldier named Chuck who injures his ankle during operations and must be evacuated, with his commanding officer expressing pride in his service. A third story, "Like Father—Like Son," deals with a soldier wrestling with the decision to join the Army and follow in his father's footsteps as a soldier.
S/SGT. Shorty Walsh, a veteran soldier hardened by years of combat, finds his carefully guarded heart tested when he discovers that a young French boy named Jean Lapin has been secretly working as a Nazi informant—forced to spy in exchange for his family's lives held hostage by the Germans. As Walsh uncovers the truth, he must decide whether to condemn the boy or risk a dangerous midnight rescue mission to save Jean's parents and younger brother before a planned German counterattack at dawn. In this tale of war's cruelest choices, even the hardest soldier finds reason to bend.
Three soldiers manning a remote Pacific outpost during World War II find their nerves stretched to the breaking point by jungle conditions, isolation, and mounting paranoia about enemy movements. As tension boils over into conflict between the men, they must determine what's real—creeping madness, phantom threats in the darkness, or genuine danger closing in on their position. When the moment finally comes, their fractured unit faces a test that will reveal what the real enemy has been all along.
A hand-picked patrol led by Major Bill Wall is dispatched deep into the North African desert on a sabotage mission to destroy German supply dumps at Tobruk, but the journey proves far more perilous than anticipated—the men must survive enemy aircraft, a massive Arab ambush, and the relentless desert itself before reaching their objective. This 1963 war story follows the unit through harrowing days of combat and survival as they execute a daring rear-attack strategy that could turn the tide of the campaign.
PFC Chuck Morris joins his late father's legendary unit, the 33rd Airborne, hoping to live up to the hero his father was—but his tough-as-nails sergeant, who served under Captain Morris during World War II, won't let him forget the impossible standard he's expected to meet. When the 33rd deploys to Korea for real combat, Chuck must face his deepest fears and prove whether he can stand on his own or be forever overshadowed by his father's reputation.
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