Fightin' Navy #121

A damaged PT-197 runs for weeks after Pearl Harbor, surviving battles with Japanese forces before washing ashore on a Philippine island where Filipino guerrillas offer shelter. With help from locals and daring raids to salvage parts from other wrecked boats, the crew works to repair their vessel and get back into action against the occupying Japanese—but danger lurks at every turn. Written with letters by typeset, this 1965 war story captures the grit and determination of a crew refusing to give up.

Captain Neil Calder pushes his cruiser perilously close to shore to strike a Communist-held railroad bridge in Korea, only to face devastating return fire from a hidden heavy artillery battery. When carrier aircraft and corsairs prove unable to locate the well-camouflaged guns, Calder plots a daring return run: radar-guided firing under a smoke screen laid down by allied planes, gambling that he can draw out the enemy battery and mark its position for a final devastating strike. It's a tense game of naval chess where the stakes are counted in American lives and the bridge's supply line to enemy troops.

In February 1943, the submarine U.S.S. Redgar searches the Pacific for a downed pilot when a Japanese air attack leaves Coxswain "Whitey" Cogdill stranded in the water near an uncharted island. With only seven matches and his wits, Cogdill must signal for rescue while avoiding the Japanese forces that control the island—and the sub itself must survive enemy depth charges long enough to find him. A tense game of survival and ingenuity unfolds as both man and submarine fight the odds in these hostile waters.