Fightin' Navy #122

Deep in the bowels of a battlewagon, Boatswain's Mate Second Class Bissell and Machinist's Mate Second Class Pincus face a desperate race against time when a Japanese bomber crashes into their gun turret, leaving them with a flaming cargo of powder charges and shells that could sink the entire ship. Working through blistering heat and against impossible odds, the two men scramble to load one final salvo—and in doing so, finally witness the true impact of the work they've been feeding to the guns all along.

Aboard a destroyer anchored off the Pacific coast in 1965, Captain Walsh and his crew face relentless kamikaze attacks—Japanese suicide pilots determined to take down the American fleet no matter the cost. When exhausted gunners Reynolds and Benny man their battle stations through wave after wave of incoming Oka planes, the captain must make split-second decisions to keep his ship afloat, pushing both vessel and crew to their breaking point. It's a tense portrait of naval combat at its most desperate, where quick thinking and grit are the only weapons against an enemy willing to die for victory.

When Herr Kapitän Heinrich von Bintz defeated the U.S.S. Colton in 1918, he believed the victory was permanent—but years later, the two old adversaries cross paths again when Lt. Bernard Lang returns to South America as a naval officer and discovers von Bintz is now a Nazi minister with plans far more sinister than merely reliving past glory. Lang must expose von Bintz's schemes before the U-boat captain can turn the region into a base for Germany's coming war.