Fightin' Marines #63

When a Chinese Communist general arrives under a flag of truce demanding Lt. Col. Jim Cogdill's surrender, the Texas Marine sees an opportunity—but also a trap. After a quick decision saves his life, Cogdill and his men execute a daring tactical gambit, relocating their positions before the enemy launches a massive assault across open ground. What follows is a brutal test of firepower, timing, and air support as thousands of Communist troops flow toward the Marine lines in the frozen Korean night.

A medic named Terry responds to a desperate cry for help in the frozen Korean night, unsure whether the wounded soldier calling for aid is a friend or a deadly trap. Racing through the darkness with danger at every turn, he must make a split-second choice that could cost him everything—or save a comrade's life. This tense wartime tale captures the impossible odds medics face when duty demands they answer the call.

Lt. Buck Keeland and his guide Tomaso Liguaya must infiltrate the village of San Gabriel to warn Filipino guerrillas and evacuate wounded before Japanese forces discover a hidden hospital and execute the townspeople in reprisal. Racing against time, the two men coordinate with villagers and American air support to extract the vulnerable from danger and turn the occupied town into a killing ground for the enemy battalion.

When S/Sgt. Stan Krojek warns his inexperienced Marines about a deceptively charming Chinese soldier called Frisco Red—who uses baseball talk and souvenirs to build false trust across the Korean combat zone—the young men are torn between the sergeant's hard-earned suspicion and their own hope that the enemy might just be human. But when the Marines let their guard down for a trade, they discover too late that Frisco Red's friendly demeanor masks a calculated trap set to draw them into an ambush.

When the battleships bombed at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, seemed finished—shattered hulks left smoking in the harbor—few expected these "Queens of the High Seas" to sail again. Raised and repaired, they proved too slow for carrier task forces but found their true purpose in invasion beaches and heavy naval bombardments, their massive rifles and pinpoint accuracy becoming vital weapons in the fight against Japanese and Nazi forces. From the Pacific to Normandy Beach on June 6, 1944, the old battleships turned the tables on enemies who thought they'd already won.

Captain Gus Tanner leads twelve Marine raiders in a pre-dawn assault on a heavily fortified Japanese air base in the Pacific, splitting his force to simultaneously strike the airfield, fuel depot, and command post. With the element of surprise and Joseph Twosmith's deadly precision, the Marines fight through fierce resistance to achieve their objective—but their real challenge is staying alive long enough to reach the extraction point.