Fightin' Navy #80

A weathered destroyer desperately overdue for repairs is pressed into service for a dangerous rescue mission behind enemy lines, and her war-weary crew discovers that their sacrifice has earned them unexpected recognition. When word reaches the ship that Lt. Commander Harte has been protecting them from another dangerous assignment, the crew rallies together and volunteers for the job anyway—proving that the "Old Rustbucket" and her tight-knit team are exactly what the Navy needs most. With morale restored and a new mission ahead, this ragged workhorse and her men are ready to answer the call once more.

During World War II, Captain Pete Adams commands a Q-boat—a disguised armed trawler that looks like a harmless fishing vessel to lure unsuspecting German U-boats into range. When the U-490 surfaces nearby, Adams recognizes its captain, Ernst Gebbler, the same cruel officer who sank his defenseless dory years earlier, and gets his long-awaited chance at revenge. The trap is sprung, but Adams knows the enemy won't fall for the same deception twice.

When the USS Kendall is caught behind enemy lines after Pearl Harbor, Commander Skip Andrews hatches a daring deception: camouflaged and hidden on a remote atoll, his single destroyer will wage a one-ship war, striking Japanese installations and convoys while letting intercepted enemy reports convince the Japanese Navy that an entire task force is hunting them. With native guides and resourcefulness as his only allies, Andrews must keep his crew sharp and his ship supplied long enough to tie down Japanese forces that might otherwise overwhelm the American fleet organizing across the Pacific.

The destroyer Herlihy earned her reputation as a jinxed ship—until Captain Brodie and her crew are tasked with hunting down a Japanese cruiser lurking in the fog-shrouded Aleutians, a mission that will test whether their famous bad luck turns to their advantage when the stakes are highest. Though battered by mechanical failures and treacherous waters at every turn, the Herlihy's crew proves their mettle in combat against an enemy that outguns them, discovering that their ship's strange fortune may be the only edge they need.