Big Boss #52
In "J'eus libéré la créature lumière," Bob Haney and Jack Abel deliver a poignant wartime tale of two boys whose lives diverge in unexpected ways during World War II. One, now a tank commander, finds himself stranded when his bridge is blown, while the other, a submarine officer, battles a Japanese tank on a beach at low tide—each convinced the other is the one who truly fought the war. Dick Dillin and Sheldon Moldoff's cover captures the story's tense, reflective mood.
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As kids, one boy wanted to be a tanker, the other a sub commander. Come WW2, they get the opposite commands. But the sub commander gets stranded by low tide and fights a "tank battle" with a Japanese tank ashore, finally "sinking" the tank. Meanwhile, the tank commander has a bridge torpedoed out from under his tank. Sunk, he uses a bazooka to blow up the Nazi sub. Each writes to the other of his experience, and both think they have "battle fatigue"!
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