Fightin' Marines #28

Major Neil Loring earned his hardened reputation the brutal way—at Tarawa—and now he's applying those hard-won lessons to green Marines in Korea, pushing them relentlessly through combat to keep them alive and effective. When enemy armor rolls through his position, the Major's tactical discipline and personal courage are put to the ultimate test as he orchestrates a desperate defensive stand to turn the tide of battle.

A Marine demolition expert finds himself the sole survivor of a raid on a heavily fortified Japanese-held island, tasked with destroying a massive ammo dump while outnumbered by a thousand enemy soldiers. Stranded and cut off from his unit, he must rely on resourcefulness and grit to complete his mission and stay alive. Over eleven grueling weeks, he wages a personal war against overwhelming odds, waiting for rescue that might never come.

A young Marine fresh to boot camp despises the constant gas-drill whistles—until those relentless training exercises become his salvation during a brutal trench battle in 1917 France, when muscle memory trained into his bones keeps him alive as real poison gas descends on his position. What once seemed like pointless harassment transforms into the difference between life and death when German forces launch their attack through the deadly haze.

Cut off from his unit on Guadalcanal after a Japanese night landing, PFC. Joe Kosky spots a massive enemy supply depot from a tree and devises a desperate plan to strike it using rifle grenades. Working alone and under fire, Kosky retrieves the grenades, makes his shots count from distance, and wages a one-man campaign against the Japanese position before making his way back to friendly lines.

When a Marine platoon runs low on ammunition and pinned down by enemy fire, two men volunteer for a desperate run through hostile territory to bring back supplies—but the mission takes a brutal turn when one of them falls. Keely pushes forward alone, scrounging ammunition from stragglers and wounded soldiers on the road, determined to get back to his unit despite overwhelming odds. This is a tight, unflinching look at the cost of survival in combat, where a single Marine's stubborn refusal to quit might be the only thing standing between his platoon and annihilation.