Marines Attack #3
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThe issue contains two stories. "The Bridge of Nan U" depicts a Marine attack on a Japanese-held bridge during World War II, with a soldier left behind receiving lessons in combat survival after a grenade attack. "Tricky!" is a longer text-and-illustration story about Allied military planners developing an unbreakable military code to prevent the Japanese from decoding their invasion plans, focusing on the urgent seven-week effort to create a perfect code and the challenges faced by the code-development team.
Corporal Popper Lewis is ordered to dismantle his machine gun and pull out during a desperate retreat from Chinese Communist forces in December 1951, but when a mortar explosion leaves him stranded on the wrong side of a strategic stone bridge near Wonsan, he must improvise a daring solution to keep enemy tanks from overrunning his outfit. With his wounded comrade Hager hidden nearby and an unexpected cache of enemy explosives at hand, Popper sets up a dangerous stand that will test both his quick thinking and his nerve under fire.
A Marine gunnery sergeant looks back on his rise from scared recruit to expert combat veteran, tracing his education in warfare from the landing at Saipan through the Korean War—until his hard-won mastery and ruthless efficiency put him at odds with Lt. Gus Voorhies, who questions whether the sergeant has become too willing to kill. As the sergeant reflects on every hard lesson learned across years of brutal combat, the tension between textbook soldiering and the cost of becoming a "real pro" threatens to tear apart the unit.
A Marine captain and his seven-man hit-and-run squad are inserted by helicopter deep behind enemy lines to strike Communist positions in Korea, armed with experimental multi-barreled rocket launchers and recoilless rifles. Working in perfect coordination with air support and radio-guided artillery, they execute a devastating series of raids across T-Bone Hill and Skull Ridge before vanishing into the clouds—always one step ahead of Chinese forces that never even know where they came from. It's a tight, tactical demonstration of unconventional warfare at its finest.
A pilot with the Marine Air Wing discovers his personal stake in a ground battle when his brother-in-law, Lieutenant Keene, calls for air support over a heavily fortified enemy position in Korea. Determined to protect the 2nd Platoon, the pilot coordinates multiple aircraft strikes against Communist forces—then finds himself on the ground when a night attack threatens to overrun the Marines' position. It's a story about the bond between a flyer and the men he fights to protect, where duty and family loyalty blur in the heat of combat.
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Reprinted in Fightin' Marines #170 (1983), Fightin' Marines #171 (1983), Fightin' Marines #176 (1984)
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