Fightin' Army #49

A wounded G.I. named Dalton shows mercy to a starving enemy war-dog in the frozen Korean winter, and that small act of compassion comes back to save his life when the same beast, trained to attack, refuses to harm him during a brutal firefight. "The Teeth of the Enemy!" explores how kindness can break through even the harshest conditioning—and how an unlikely ally emerges on the battlefield.

Cpl. Whitey Remsen has spent eight grueling weeks driving ammunition trucks for the Red Ball Express—dangerous night runs that he figures are actually safer than front-line combat—but when a German attack destroys the ammo supply meant for his old infantry company, he volunteers to drive a fresh load through enemy fire to keep the line from being overrun. With an infantry captain riding shotgun and Nazi planes, artillery, and tanks closing in, Remsen discovers that delivering ammunition under fire might be the most dangerous job of all.

Corporal Joe Carr once spared a Japanese officer's life in 1945, but sixteen years later, that mercy comes back to haunt him when he returns to the Philippines and finds himself face-to-face with the same man—now a drifter consumed by the war's unfinished business. As old instincts resurface and bullets fly in the jungle where their first encounter ended, Carr must confront what it truly means to survive a war that never really ended for everyone.

When Brigadier General Aurelius C. Earley takes command of the demoralized division known as "Grandma's Girls"—soldiers who broke and fled during the Normandy landing—he embarks on a brutal campaign to forge them back into fighting men, subjecting them to relentless discipline and public shame. Despised by his own troops but unshakeable in his conviction, Earley drives them through weeks of punishing training before finally getting them a shot at real combat alongside seasoned troops in the European campaign. As the soldiers face actual battle and prove themselves under fire, their contempt for their commander begins to transform into something entirely different.