The Fighting Man #8

Matt Keene signed up to fight in Korea, but instead found himself shoveling coal for a ramshackle locomotive until enemy forces overran the town of Kwonju and left him no choice but to take the throttle himself. With Red tanks closing in and a traincar full of ammunition, Matt must use his newfound skill at running the "Dragon Train" to turn the tide and reclaim the town from enemy hands.

Dave Hilton and Bill Brady are rival soldiers of the Third Engineers stationed at Taifu Beach, but when enemy landing boats appear offshore, their petty quarrels over mattresses and marksmanship bets fall away—they've got real fighting to do. As the assault unfolds with machine gun fire and grenades, the two former antagonists discover that survival depends more on teamwork than rivalry.

When a brutal winter blizzard sweeps across a Korean War outpost, American soldiers find themselves pinned down by enemy forces with dwindling ammunition and no relief in sight. Desperate and running out of conventional options, the men devise an unconventional solution to hold their position against repeated enemy charges. As the battle rages across frozen terrain, they discover that sometimes survival means improvising in the most unexpected ways.

Tom Gentry is a loud-mouthed soldier with contempt for army life who gets court-martialed—until an officer offers him a second chance: face combat in Korea instead of prison. When Gentry goes AWOL in the Korean hills and stumbles onto an enemy raid, his instinct to survive clashes with something unexpected unfolding before him, forcing him to make a choice that changes everything about who he thought he was.