Fightin' Army #26

PFC. Mike Rinaldi and his fellow soldiers have been forced into a costly retreat across Korea as enemy forces push them back toward Pusan, but when a resourceful civilian provides an unexpected weapon, Rinaldi sees his chance to make a stand. Alongside South Korean troops and armed with makeshift gasoline bottles, he orchestrates a bold defense against superior numbers, determined to hold the road long enough for reinforcements to arrive.

PFC Billy Boyce carries a wound that won't heal—crippling fear of artillery barrages that freezes him in combat, despite his nerve in hand-to-hand fighting. When he's tasked as a runner to deliver urgent orders that could save his regiment from a devastating bombardment, Boyce must push through the very nightmare that has haunted him since the beaches of Normandy. "Barrage" follows this soldier's struggle to master his terror when the stakes have never been higher.

Lieutenant Edwin's platoon fights to hold Hill 461 against wave after wave of Chinese counterattacks, but cut off from their own lines and running dangerously low on supplies, the men face a grimmer enemy than bullets: starvation. When Ralph Williams and George Kennedy slip through enemy lines to raid a nearby Red food depot, the platoon's survival hangs on whether they can stretch meager rations long enough for relief to arrive.

Olaf Jensen, known as "Slow Joe" throughout his outfit, finally sees combat on Okinawa with a squad of green eighteen-year-old replacements who are terrified and untested—but his sluggish pace and apparent inability to move quickly become an unexpected asset when the enemy launches a desperate assault. As the Imperial Guards pour down on the American lines, Jensen's refusal to panic and his steady presence hold his panicking men in place long enough to turn the tide.