Frogman Comics #3

Mickey Cutler dreams of earning military medals like the officers he admires from his Brooklyn boyhood, and years later he gets his wish—volunteering as a frogman alongside his old pal Pete Gunnerson. When a dangerous underwater demolition mission goes catastrophically wrong, Mickey faces a choice that will test whether he's really the hero he always wanted to be. A powerful war story about sacrifice and redemption set during the height of naval combat operations.

During the struggle for Guadalcanal in 1942, Lt. Grant discovers that standard P.T. boats alone cannot stop Japanese reinforcements streaming through "the Slot"—until Ensign Rogers and his U.D.T. frogmen arrive with experimental underwater weapons and a daring plan to strike at the enemy supply line. Working from a submarine, the frogmen infiltrate a heavily guarded Japanese harbor to plant magnetic mines on transport ships, executing a covert operation that turns the tide of the island campaign.

When Clyde Dawson joins the Navy's underwater demolition unit to escape a painful choice about his father's wartime manufacturing business, he finds himself on a dangerous mission to neutralize enemy gun positions protecting a Pacific harbor—only to discover that the very equipment he left home to serve with carries a devastating flaw. Stacey, a fellow frogman, witnesses Clyde's bravery during the operation, but a tragic consequence of defective oxygen tanks forces a reckoning neither man anticipated. This 1952 war story explores how the choices we make in conscience can haunt us long after the fighting ends.

In "Forty Feet of Water," Clyde uncovers a dangerous flaw in the oxygen tanks his father is building for the navy, but when he tries to stop the shipment, his father refuses to listen—putting lives at risk and forcing Clyde to confront a painful choice between loyalty and duty.

Cliff O'Neil and Bill Daggert, a pair of ex-frogmen with Navy blood still running through their veins, stumble onto something fishy at a New Jersey oil refinery—a mysterious valve leaking from an abandoned pipeline that shouldn't be in use. When their investigation leads them underwater and straight into the crosshairs of a foreign submarine and its operatives, the former sailors find themselves prisoners aboard a tramp steamer with no clear way out. With Lt. Mackin and the Navy Yard as their only hope, Cliff and Bill must rely on their wits and their old training to expose a dangerous smuggling operation before the ship sets sail.

When intelligence reports enemy self-propelled torpedoes armed with atomic warheads closing in on a harbor and fleet, Commander Johnny Parsons and his frogman Jason launch an urgent underwater operation to intercept them. After successfully stopping two of the deadly weapons, a third torpedo slips through—already attached to a ship—and Jason must dive deep under crushing pressure to defuse it before detonation. It's a race against time beneath the waves in this 1952 adventure from Frogman Comics #3.