Fightin' Marines #75

A Marine caught in the brutal trench warfare of the Marne battles in 1918 takes out a German machine-gun nest and infiltrates enemy trenches—only to be left for dead by a German general. Badly wounded but refusing to surrender, he overhears the general's plan to commit fresh reserves and break through to Paris, and realizes he's the only one who can stop it. In a desperate gamble, Doolin forces the general at gunpoint to call off the attack and surrender, turning the tide of battle through sheer guts and nerve.

During a patrol in a Vietnamese village, a young sergeant discovers that one of the locals—a girl's mother—is secretly passing information to the Viet Cong, but a chance observation suggests her real motives may be more complicated than they first appear. When the sergeant follows her into the jungle, he uncovers a hidden enemy position and learns the truth behind her apparent betrayal. With the village's help, the patrol sets a trap to protect the innocent and root out the Cong forces once and for all.

When North Korea's invasion of the South nearly overwhelmed the conflict, General MacArthur's daring Inchon Landing on September 15, 1950, turned the tide behind enemy lines. This account follows the Marines' fierce house-to-house fighting through Inchon and their push northward after recapturing Seoul, as the NKPA retreats under relentless pressure. But as victory seems within reach and the Marines advance toward the Yalu River and Chosin Reservoir, a shadow looms—Chinese forces are massing to transform triumph into something far grimmer.

A tough sergeant must lead his squad—men he knows personally, whose families trusted him—against a heavily fortified Japanese position on a coral island, and he struggles with the weight of deciding which of his friends to order into certain danger. As the battle unfolds across the island, he learns a hard lesson about what it really means to lead a unit as a team. This 1967 war story from Fightin' Marines #75 explores the human cost of command in combat, where loyalty to the squad cuts both ways.