Battlefield Action #51

A former minor-league pitcher finds his throwing arm—his ticket to the majors—put to a different kind of test when he's drafted into the Korean War and discovers his grenade-throwing accuracy is his unit's best defense. As enemy forces close in and casualties mount, Hobie Todd must decide whether to protect his injured shoulder and his dreams of baseball glory, or risk everything to save his squad. This 1964 war story from Battlefield Action #51 trades diamond dreams for the brutal arithmetic of combat, where one perfect throw might be the difference between survival and disaster.

A soldier separated from his patrol in a Korean village finds himself trapped when Communist forces move in, forcing him to survive the night by any means necessary. As he evades capture and searches the village for shelter, he stumbles onto intelligence that could turn the tide of the coming attack. With enemy troops closing in and a colonel in the line of fire, this GI has to make a desperate dash to get that vital information back to his unit.

A wounded soldier recovering from combat finds himself accused of falling asleep on guard duty when Nazi weapons go missing—but he knows he was knocked unconscious by someone far more dangerous. Determined to prove his innocence and stop a hidden enemy before they strike again, he pursues a desperate lead that takes him from the city streets into the tunnels beneath a bombed-out house. What he uncovers there will show the M.P.s exactly how wrong they've been about him.

When Major Harris Barker is killed during the Normandy invasion, the men of the 24th Infantry Division must adjust to their replacement: the rigid, by-the-book Capt. Emory Ballis, whose obsession with spit and polish clashes sharply with soldiers exhausted from eight straight days of brutal combat. As the unit faces fresh waves of German fire, Ballis will discover what truly binds a fighting force together.