Fightin' Army #29

PFC. Zack Channing prides himself on surviving by playing it safe—calculating risks, avoiding danger, and staying put in foxholes. But when his squad is pinned down by German artillery and machine guns on a bluffed slope in North Italy, his cautious tactics are put to the ultimate test as he’s forced to move forward despite the danger.

Captain Slade leads his exhausted, ragged company in a bold assault on a heavily fortified villa in March 1945, defying orders to wait for artillery and charging straight in despite the odds. As they battle S.S. troops inside, the men uncover a hidden bunker holding high-ranking Nazi officers, proving the intelligence they’d been given—and their relentless drive to push forward was justified.

A lone Marine, left behind on a hostile atoll after a failed raid, survives alone for weeks, evading Japanese patrols and enduring hunger and thirst while adapting to the brutal rhythm of the island. As he fights to stay alive, the tide turns when the enemy fuel dump is destroyed, giving him the weapons and courage to strike back—only to face a final, desperate stand under searchlights and machine gun fire.

Sergeant Ruane, recovering from a traumatic injury sustained during a harrowing patrol, struggles with lingering psychological scars and vivid flashbacks of a moment when he mistook his own reflection in a shattered mirror for an enemy soldier. As he returns to his unit, the familiar sounds of battle trigger a crisis of fear and doubt, testing his mental resilience and forcing him to confront the line between memory and reality.

In the winter of 1951, a young replacement soldier joins a bazooka team in Korea, quickly clashing with his bulky, brash teammate Stricker, who’s more interested in picking fights than fighting the enemy. As they face a brutal Chinese assault and a terrifying T-34 tank advance, the two must overcome their differences and rely on each other to survive.