Fightin' Navy #111

When the North Korean Army invaded the South in 1950, American forces struck back with an amphibious assault at Inchon—and Coxswain Henry Summers found himself in the thick of it, helping wounded Marines off the beach while dodging enemy fire and supporting the naval bombardment that turned the tide of the campaign. This is the story of the U.S. Navy's lightning strike on the Korean coast, where carrier planes, battleship guns, and dedicated sailors like Summers worked together to break communist resistance and push inland.

During the D-Day invasion at Normandy in June 1944, Motor-Machinist's Mate Joe Cadahy and fellow sailor Mike Rimmon ferry soldiers to the blood-soaked beach, only to discover that a camouflaged Nazi pill-box—missed by Allied bombers—is decimating the landing force, including men from Mike's own hometown. When Mike realizes his younger brothers will be in the next wave, he takes matters into his own hands in a desperate attempt to silence the gun before more lives are lost. This tense combat tale captures the chaos and impossible choices of amphibious warfare, where one soldier's courage might be the only thing standing between his comrades and slaughter.

Destroyer DD-583 Fanchot is reported missing and presumed sunk, but the ship's crew fights desperately to survive after being driven onto an uncharted reef near Japanese-held territory in the Kuril Islands. With damage mounting and enemy forces closing in, the captain must make a critical decision about whether to call for help and risk revealing their position to the entire Japanese fleet. This is one of World War II's wildest naval battles, told with all the tension and grit you'd expect from a warship pushed to its breaking point.

A coxswain aboard the destroyer DD-437 Bulmer thinks he has it made during a routine South Atlantic patrol—until a "harmless" passenger liner reveals itself as a Nazi raider and opens fire. As Lt. Danvers and the crew scramble to battle stations, our narrator must navigate the chaos of combat while watching his ship take catastrophic damage. With the intercom down and the order to abandon ship, he makes a desperate choice that could change everything.