Army War Heroes #5

Oct 1964 · Charlton · 0.12 USD

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# Army War Heroes #5 This issue contains at least two war stories. "Sleeping Beauty" follows a soldier who disobeys orders while his squad is away; when he awakens, he discovers a Nazi hideout in a castle and must fight to escape, eventually making it back to Newark where he sets up a plumbing contracting shop. A second story depicts intense combat action involving tank warfare and soldiers under fire, with dramatic explosions and hand-to-hand combat scenes visible across multiple pages.

Contains 5 stories

The High Roller

8 pp · War

In the European Theater of World War II, PFC Moxie Howard earns his nickname—not from his gambling prowess alone, but from his reckless courage under fire and his uncanny luck at the crap tables. When the 3rd Division embarks for the D-Day invasion loaded with winnings he can't send home, Howard carries a fortune in cash onto Normandy Beach, where fortune and bullets are about to collide in ways no game could predict. His squad leader pieces together the story of a soldier caught between two kinds of odds: the ones he wins at, and the ones that matter most.

Night Patrol

1 pp · War

The Biggest Game of All

8 pp · War

PFC Jerry Coll has made a comfortable living gambling his way through the Korean War, carefully avoiding combat and keeping himself far from the action—until a four-day card game at Division HQ costs him his outfit dearly. Now back with his unit after men died in his absence, Coll must face the consequences of his selfishness and discover whether a born gambler can find the odds worth fighting for when it matters most.

Airdrop

1 pp · War

A cut-off American platoon under siege by Communist forces in Korea gets a fighting chance when supply planes drop vital provisions—but the enemy won't wait for the soldiers to regroup. As the men scramble to organize the delivered cargo while holding their ground, the simple comfort of fresh supplies proves as crucial to survival as ammunition itself.

Sleeping Beauty

7 pp · War

A soldier separated from his squad discovers an injured blonde woman in an abandoned German castle—and walks straight into a deadly trap with Nazi forces still holding the position. With the girl's help operating a hidden radio, he must hold off Field Marshal Von Wohl and his men until reinforcements arrive, all while trying to figure out whose side she's really on. "Sleeping Beauty" delivers wartime intrigue and gunfire across the castle's stone corridors in this 1964 tale from Army War Heroes #5.