Battlefield Action #18

A fighter pilot confident in his solo superiority over ground troops gets a humbling lesson when enemy tanks threaten an infantry unit below—and his impromptu heroics force him to bail out straight into the very kind of close-quarters combat he'd always dismissed. Stranded in the hedgerows with nothing but his wits and a handful of bullets, he discovers that the "dogfaces" in the mud might have been right all along about what it takes to survive this war.

Sergeant Martin is unexpectedly commissioned as a lieutenant after his commanding officer is wounded, and now he faces an impossible deadline: getting an armored column across the Orne River before the Germans destroy yet another bridge. With only hours to spare and a daring plan inspired by his predecessor's designs, Martin must orchestrate a dangerous nighttime assault that combines speed, deception, and precision demolitions to outmaneuver enemy P.T. boats and demolition teams determined to stop him.

An intelligence team attached to the 101st Regiment finds itself at odds with their commanding officer, "Iron Pants" Smith, who dismisses their interrogation skills and orders them to scavenge souvenirs instead. Determined to complete their mission, the sergeant and his men infiltrate German lines on their own, capture prisoners, and recover vital documents revealing the weak points in the Siegfried Line's defenses. Armed with actionable intelligence, they finally convince the colonel to attempt a daring rear-assault strategy that cracks the enemy fortifications wide open.

A tank battalion burdened by a terrible combat record gets one last shot at redemption when Sgt. Baron and his platoon are assigned to break through enemy fortifications around Dammelsberg and liberate a stalag holding a thousand American prisoners. When the infantry's skepticism boils over into a fight, Baron must prove on the battlefield that the Twenty-Sixth is more than just a outfit of failures—and that a single decisive action can transform a unit's reputation forever.