Fightin' Five #30

When a string of mysteriously defective "Big-D" products nearly kills members of the Fightin' 5—a sabotaged sports car, a faulty parachute, a tank with compromised fuel lines—the team suspects something far more sinister than manufacturing accident. Aboard Hank Hennessey's yacht, the battered heroes realize they've stumbled into a conspiracy that reaches to the heart of General Dynamotors itself, and now they'll have to survive long enough to uncover who's pulling the strings.

PFC. Jerry Rand, stationed in West Germany, witnesses a young woman's desperate escape attempt across the border and faces a moral test when an East German guard seeks his help—a moment that challenges everything dictatorships assume about free people. "The Decadent Democracy" explores what happens when compassion meets duty in the shadow of the Cold War.

A military transport operation demonstrating rapid global deployment gets a real-world showcase in "The Instant Army"—a snapshot of how modern forces can move equipment and personnel across continents in hours. The piece celebrates the speed and coordination of the U.S. Army's airlift capabilities, from jet transports to helicopters to airdrops of heavy armor, proving that troops no longer need to be stationed everywhere to respond when trouble strikes.

When Field Marshal Erwin Rommel arrives in North Africa in 1941 with vastly outnumbered forces, he devises an audacious deception: mock tanks built on Volkswagen chassis to convince the British that his full strength is already present. Drawing on his genius for rapid movement and battlefield intuition, Rommel harasses and outmaneuvers his enemies across the desert, earning grudging respect from both his own troops and his adversaries. This is the tale of how one commander's cunning and daring nearly turned the tide of an entire campaign.