Fightin' Marines #71

When a Marine named Mears freezes during combat in Korea, his squad writes him off—literally voting him out of the heavy weapons team and leaving him to fend for himself in a frozen foxhole. Stripped of ammunition and camaraderie, Mears finds himself alone when the Communists launch a brutal assault that pins down Piggott and the rest of the squad, and only swift action might change everything. It's a raw look at how fast a soldier can fall in his unit's eyes, and what it takes to earn back even a sliver of respect under fire.

During the brutal fighting on Saipan, Sergeant Mel Doolin is wounded during a Japanese ambush—but his brother Frank, a Marine pilot circling overhead, spots the trouble and swoops in to help. When Frank's plane takes fire and he's forced to bail out, the two brothers must fight their way through enemy lines together to make it back to safety. It's a tense jungle reunion where brotherly bonds are tested under fire.

When peace negotiations stall at Panmunjom, the Marines holding the Korean War's frozen front lines face relentless CCF attacks through the dark—and the skipper's insistence on flak jackets proves it's a decision that saves lives. As the enemy tunnels beneath the hills to mass their forces unseen, these Marines must hold their outposts and call in artillery and airstrikes to survive another brutal night while diplomats talk miles away.

Lt. James Lorin arrives in the Philippines with his platoon, determined to hunt down Japanese forces hiding in the treacherous Poison Swamp near Los Cramos—a vast, unmapped jungle where General Shupuki Ikagi commands thousands of enemy troops. With help from PFC Billy Joe Hith, a Florida Marine with Seminole heritage who knows how to navigate deadly swampland, Lorin pursues a daring plan to infiltrate the enemy's stronghold. What the two Marines discover deep in the heart of the swamp will turn the tide of the entire campaign.