Fightin' Army #28

Sergeant Miles Warner, a veteran of the European campaign, volunteers for one final patrol to scout a seemingly abandoned castle that intelligence suspects might be booby-trapped—but discovers a cunning Nazi survivor from Rommel's Afrika Korps is waiting inside. What begins as a dangerous reconnaissance mission becomes a deadly cat-and-mouse game between two seasoned soldiers, each testing their wits and skills against the other in the ruins.

Captain Bob Barbour returns to active duty for the Korean War, driving L Company through grueling training and combat with an iron discipline he believes will keep his men alive. But after a head wound during a dangerous mission, Barbour's judgment becomes increasingly reckless, and his soldiers—worn down and skeptical—must decide whether to follow orders that seem designed to get them killed. When their commander makes one final, desperate push against enemy lines, L Company discovers what it truly means to stand by their captain.

Harry Muntz never wanted to be a hero, content to do his job and nothing more—until his squad is ambushed and captured by North Korean forces near Pusan, leaving him as the sole survivor. When a sergeant challenges him to do some good, Harry pursues the enemy patrol alone with borrowed grenades and a Thompson gun, determined to free his captured buddies. What unfolds is a desperate one-man assault that proves sometimes the quiet soldier is exactly who you need when it matters most.

A young soldier named Hank arrives on Bougainville expecting an easy campaign, only to learn the hard way that jungle combat is far deadlier than the rumors suggested. After a harrowing encounter with enemy fighters and an impromptu crash course fighting alongside battle-hardened Marines, he rejoins his own inexperienced outfit to face a heavily fortified ridge. In "Bougainville Skirmish!", Hank and his squad discover that survival in the Pacific theater means learning to fight under fire—or not surviving at all.

When Private Kelly Smith arrives in a South American backwater as part of a small military detachment, he discovers a Communist-backed outfit using gold and propaganda to stir up anti-American sentiment among the locals. With his major's blessing, Smith heads upriver on leave to investigate—and finds himself an unexpected leader in the fight against foreign manipulation. What starts as reconnaissance becomes something far more complicated when the grateful townspeople look to him to take action.