Fightin' Navy #86

In "1 Mile To Eternity," the USS Kingfish slips through a submarine net and into a German-held harbor, where it silently eliminates enemy supply ships before facing the perilous task of escaping—now hunted by a fleet of hostile vessels closing in from all sides.

In "The Suicide Ships," Lt. Commander Joyce faces a desperate mission: defend a convoy of troop transports from a superior Japanese fleet, using every tactic at his disposal—down to the ultimate sacrifice of ramming enemy warships head-on.

In August 1942, Lt. Ranse Endicott commands PT-5, one of six small torpedo boats wreaking havoc on Japanese operations across the Java Sea—a flotilla so effective that Tokyo won't admit to the world what's really sinking their ships. After losing a fellow boat and running low on supplies, Endicott and his crew locate a Japanese convoy and launch a daring attack that leaves them alive but depleted, racing toward Darwin with nothing left but the hope of reaching friendly waters. It's a taut patrol story that captures the scrappy defiance of men in a tiny ship taking on an empire.

When radio operator Jack Agranski transmits a routine position report aboard a light cruiser headed for Guam, the Japanese intercept the message and launch a devastating air attack—forcing Captain Vernon Hyde to confront a terrible truth: the enemy has cracked the Navy's code. Rather than abandon the compromised cipher, Hyde and his superiors devise a dangerous gambit to turn the tables, using false messages to lure the Japanese fleet into a carefully planned ambush.

A hardened sailor named Dawes clashes with his tough-as-nails commanding officer, Lt. Champ Buford, during training—a man whose harsh methods and demands earn nothing but contempt from his men. When their unit hits the beach in a fierce island campaign, Dawes discovers that the skipper's iron discipline and combat instincts are exactly what they need to survive, forcing him to see his former antagonist in an entirely new light.