Fightin' Marines #34

A street kid from Hell's Kitchen lands in the Marine Corps through his uncle's conniving, expecting an easy ride—but discovers the military has plans of its own. Little Joe Corda's old habits of theft and scrapping run headlong into boot camp discipline, though his scrappy tenement instincts prove unexpectedly useful when he ships out to Guadalcanal. Watch as a delinquent becomes a decorated soldier, yet stays true to his nature.

When a mortar blast leaves Marine Corporal Dilling apparently dead on a Korean hillside, his patrol abandons him and moves on—but Dilling wakes up, battered but alive, and decides he's not done fighting yet. Realizing the enemy is building up supplies for a major assault, he sets out alone to locate and destroy their ammunition depot, turning the tide of the battle through sheer determination and grit. It's a taut little war story about what one Marine can accomplish when he refuses to quit.

Sergeant Yancey Tate rolls into Charlie Company fresh from Texas with a pair of low-slung six-shooters and a mouth to match, earning him the nickname "the Texas Terror"—and the contempt of every exhausted Marine in the squad who peg him for a loudmouth faker. When the enemy launches a massive assault near Seoul, the platoon discovers that Tate's brash methods and controversial tactics might be exactly what they need to turn the tide of battle.

When Lt. Lichmann's squad is sent to locate a crack Red armored unit hidden in enemy territory, a routine reconnaissance mission turns into a desperate fight for survival in a narrow valley. Surrounded by Russian tanks, mobile artillery, and infantry with nowhere to retreat, the trapped Marines must call in air support and coordinate a counterstrike before the enemy can close the trap. What the Reds think is checkmate for the Americans becomes their own undoing.