Tell It to the Marines #12
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeA Marine unit encounters an enemy officer threatening to detonate a grenade and destroy an island with atomic missiles unless they surrender. After the Marines lay down their weapons, the officer's plan is foiled when a goat sniffs out and triggers the grenade prematurely. The enemy soldiers are captured, and the Marines celebrate their unexpected victory, with one soldier commenting that the action beats cow-punching back at home in Texas.
Monty, Tex, and Canarsie are pressed into emergency duty with an armored outfit stuck in thick mud, and when the trio suggests salvaging engines from wrecked tanks to restore disabled ones, they're forced to put their untested idea to the test—with surprising results. What starts as a desperate repair job becomes a combat trial when enemy tanks unexpectedly break through, and the three Marines find themselves in the thick of it with their improvised machine. It's a wartime tale of quick thinking under fire that proves sometimes the best solutions come from the men on the ground.
When PFC James "Spike" Dowdy and PFC Battingsley "Bat" Bentley volunteer to help Professor Hiller investigate reports of a sea serpent lurking near Death Island, they're mostly interested in spending time with the Professor's niece—but the skeptical Marines quickly discover the locals' warnings may have merit. Stranded on the mysterious island after a harrowing encounter at sea, the group must figure out how to survive and signal for rescue while contending with far more than just a legendary creature.
Monty Hall finds himself stranded in the burning ruins of Seoul when the withdrawing U.N. Army torches the city to keep it from enemy hands—a raging inferno of napalm, fuel oil, and chaos. Separated from his unit and hunted by snipers, Monty teams up with fellow soldiers and an unexpected local woman named Katie to navigate the flaming streets and find a way across the frozen Han River. With enemy fire closing in from all sides, this scorched-earth detail becomes a desperate race against both the flames and the clock.
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↩ Reprints Monty Hall of the U.S. Marines #1 (1951), Tell It to the Marines #2 (1952), Monty Hall of the U.S. Marines #8 (1952)
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