Battlefield Action #53

Marine pilot Lt. Bob Delgado ditches his crippled F4U Corsair in the Pacific and swims to a Japanese-held island, only to discover he's stumbled into a POW camp where the enemy refuses to accept surrender. Teaming up with an escaped prisoner who knows the island's layout, Delgado decides that if the Japanese won't let him quit, he'll give them the fight they're asking for—starting with a daring raid on their fuel and ammunition stores. With the camp in chaos and reinforcements called in, the prisoners finally have their chance at freedom.

Twenty-year-old Neil Higby panics under fire during the Korean War and abandons his post, earning him the nickname "Chicken" and the contempt of his sergeant, who assigns him to grueling detail work as punishment. As Higby endures dangerous missions while branded a coward, he begins to discover something about himself when survival instinct and necessity force him to act.

During the brutal New Guinea campaign, Cpl. Augie Wittner serves as an artillery spotter for the American forces, radioing target coordinates back to the 155mm howitzers as Japanese Imperial Marines attempt to break through the encirclement toward the sea. When a cunning Japanese soldier begins a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with Wittner—taunting him, cutting his communications wire, and forcing repeated close encounters—the G.I. must use all his skill and nerve to stay alive while continuing his crucial work directing fire on the enemy position. As the battle intensifies, Wittner's determination and quick thinking prove instrumental in turning the tide of the engagement.

Near Arnhem in September 1944, Major A. L. Hatterick discovers his own wounded son among the paratroopers pinned down by Nazi armor after the Allied airborne landing behind the Rhine. Cut off and facing overwhelming enemy forces, the Major must choose between evacuating his injured boy and rallying his scattered battalion to fight their way out—a decision that forces father and son to rely on each other in the heat of combat. With the battalion's only escape route a Dutch canal eight miles away, Hatterick leads his men through enemy territory in a desperate bid to reach the barges that might carry them to safety.