Brûlant #20
In "L'homme insaisissable," Marie finds herself cornered in a farmhouse with a tank bearing down, forced to call in a bombing run on an underground artillery gun—just as her grandfather once did with smoke signals and her father with a mirror heliograph. With tense precision, she executes the call, feigns death, and turns the tank’s own burning smoke into a beacon to destroy it, barely escaping the blast. Written by Robert Kanigher and illustrated by Mort Drucker, this gripping tale of wartime ingenuity and courage is captured in striking detail, with a cover by Mort Drucker.
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Marie is trapped in a farmhouse by a tank, but must call in her own coordinates to a circling bomber to bomb an underground artillery gun. She reflects on how her grandfather had to call in a strike, and used smoke signals. And how her father had to call in a strike using a mirror heliograph. Finally she calls in the bombing, plays dead, then circles and kills the tank - and its burning smoke marks the target, which she barely escapes. For bravery, the Resistance gives her a "medal", all they could find, a single red rose.
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