Fightin' Navy #75

Gunner Scotty Adams and Helldiver pilot Glen Matthews set out from their carrier to hunt down the deadly Scharnhorst, a Nazi sea raider crippling Allied shipping in the North Sea. After locating and damaging the battleship in a daring attack, their damaged plane forces them to ditch near the Norwegian coast—where they discover the enemy ship has limped into a nearby fiord for repairs. Stranded but resourceful, the two airmen must hold off the Scharnhorst's crew and buy time for their fleet to finish what they started.

Lew Wallace is a skilled Navy radioman counting down the days until his enlistment ends—but when his carrier heads for Korean waters, a surprise marriage to Barbara and the call of combat change everything. Thrust into his first real action as a gunner aboard a strike mission, Lew discovers something deeper than duty when he must guide a badly wounded pilot home through fog and chaos. What began as an escape route from the Navy becomes something he never expected to find.

When Seaweed demands a year's worth of back pay from his boss Shipwreck, the wily boat-house operator pulls out a blackboard and methodically deducts every hour spent sleeping, eating, and loafing—along with Sundays, holidays, and vacation days—until Seaweed's $1,825 claim shrinks to a measly five bucks. As the arithmetic piles up, Seaweed's frustration reaches a boiling point, and the two settle their dispute the old-fashioned way.

When a naval attaché vanishes in the troubled port of Verdado, Warrant Gunner Joe Hines volunteers for detached duty ashore to find him—and quickly discovers that rebel gun-runners led by Miguel O'Brien are behind the disappearance. Hines infiltrates the rebels' operation, learns the location of their headquarters, and fights to rescue his missing colleague while calling in support from the destroyer offshore. A short, sharp tale of Navy men working alone in hostile territory to protect American interests in a foreign port.

Lt. Bob Mayer volunteers to lead a dangerous amphibious mission to Wonsan, delivering critical demolition charges to paratroopers operating behind enemy lines during the Korean War. With his crew—including the wisecracking enlisted man Blackie Carr—Mayer must navigate a hostile beach, make contact with the drop zone, and support the airborne soldiers as Red reinforcements close in. It's a tense night of combat and close calls where quick thinking and steady nerves are the only things keeping the operation from falling apart.