Soldier and Marine Comics #15
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeAn anthology featuring two military stories: In the first, soldiers under artillery fire during the Korean War must endure heavy bombardment from enemy guns until their patrols can reach an observation post to locate and silence the enemy position. In the second story, a group of enlisted men searching for officers in the field devise a plan to find them at the officers' mess, with humor ensuing as they track down their superiors.
When Sergeant Harms volunteers his heavy weapons section to hold Hill 629—the strategic key to the occupation of Yongyang—he and his men race to seize the position before the advancing Reds can take it. What unfolds is a grueling battle of ammunition rationing, artillery barrages, and desperate last stands as the outnumbered Americans fight to keep the road to Yongyang open for Colonel Simms and the main force. A taut Korean War action story that proves how a single sergeant's tactical thinking and his men's courage can shift the balance of an entire sector.
Bell Bottom Bill and a friend spot a young woman passing by, prompting a joke about someone Bill once knew who was so large that her mere presence on the street would turn it into a one-way thoroughfare. It's a quick gag that plays on the absurd scale of the punchline in this 1955 humor strip.
Monty, Tex, and Canarsie find themselves under fire from a North Korean sniper while on patrol in the mountainous Korean terrain—and when they discover the sniper was guarding a reconnaissance pilot coordinating an ambush on an approaching U.N. armored division, the three Marines race to warn the troops below. With enemy forces closing in, they'll have to use some unconventional means of transportation to outrun the clock and deliver their message in time.
PFC Patrick Michael Quigley and Corporal Marmaduke "Duke" Beals, a pair of bumbling Marines, are assigned a seemingly impossible mission: sneak behind enemy lines and capture a North Korean officer for questioning. The two decide their best shot is to infiltrate the officers' mess—where officers are bound to be—and improvise from there. What unfolds is a wild ride of comedic mishaps, narrow escapes, and one very confused enemy colonel caught in the crossfire of their chaotic scheme.
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↩ Reprints Don Winslow of the Navy #55 (1948), Soldier Comics #2 (1952), Fighting Leathernecks #3 (1952), Monty Hall of the U.S. Marines #10 (1953)
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