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Battle Stories #7 (1953)

Fawcett · 1953 · 36 pages

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Contains 4 stories
You'll Never Be Twenty
10 pp · war

A nineteen-year-old soldier named Zack faces his first taste of real combat when his platoon charges a heavily defended hill under relentless enemy fire in Korea. As comrades fall around him and the cost of following orders becomes brutally clear, Zack must grapple with the weight of survival and what it means to grow up in the crucible of war.

Is Real Problem!!
1 pp · humor; military

A sergeant's no-nonsense directive sends every soldier in the company to Julius Scissor's barber shop for regulation haircuts—but even the tough drill instructor discovers that following orders isn't always the easiest part of military life. This 1953 humor piece delivers a wry take on the absurdities of army discipline, where a simple haircut becomes the flashpoint for grumbling and grudging compliance.

Platoon Forward
8 pp · war

Sergeant Cragg leads a hardened platoon of replacements into the Korean War, determined to prepare the inexperienced soldiers for the brutal reality of combat before they face the enemy. To drive home the cost of mercy in wartime, he recounts the story of Johnny Edge, a young private who ventured into no man's land under heavy fire to rescue what he thought was a wounded American—only to discover a wounded enemy soldier instead. The sergeant's tale forces his men to confront an uncomfortable truth about survival and the nature of warfare.

Landlubber
8 pp · war

Aboard the USS Fitchburg during the Korean War, Landlubber Ladd earns constant ribbing from his crewmates for one glaring problem: he can't swim, a particular liability for a sailor. When a torpedo strike forces the ship to sink and abandon, Landlubber finds himself among shocked, paralyzed men on the tilting stern—and realizes he's the only one who can snap them out of their fear long enough to escape the doomed vessel. What happens when a man afraid of water becomes his crew's only hope?

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