Fightin' Navy #95

When a downed patrol plane carrying a Korean general comes under attack from enemy MIGs in May 1953, the destroyer Cayman races to the rescue—but Lt. Comdr. Landrum faces an impossible choice: fire on the enemy fighters and risk reigniting full-scale war, or hold back and watch his men be slaughtered. With the truce talks hanging by a thread in Panmunjom, every decision aboard the ship could change the fate of the peninsula.

John L. Backmann, a seaman second class known to his crew as "the Creep" for his constant failures and cowardice, sails aboard a heavy cruiser with Chuck Loomis, a decorated gun captain who's tried and failed to make him shape up. When the Battle of Leyte Gulf erupts in October 1944, a catastrophic fire threatens to destroy the ship—and it falls to the man everyone has written off to make an impossible choice. Will Backmann finally rise to meet the moment, or will his fear doom them all?

A wounded F4U pilot bails out over a Japanese-held island and, thought dead by the enemy, uses his survival training to map the enemy's supply depot and fuel storage while waiting for rescue. When a Navy destroyer picks him up, Lt. Jack Cluney's detailed intelligence becomes the key to a devastating dawn bombardment that destroys the very targets the Japanese believed were safe from the U.S. Navy.

Captain Max Cantwell commands a light cruiser crewed by inexperienced sailors—raw recruits and hastily trained officers—on a mercy mission to evacuate Greek refugees from Nazi-occupied territory in 1942. When enemy aircraft, submarines, and a German pocket cruiser converge to stop them, the green crew must overcome their fear and inexperience to survive, tested by fire in ways Cantwell never anticipated. This wartime tale follows a captain and his untested men as they discover what they're truly made of when the stakes couldn't be higher.