G.I. Combat #180

Few covers from DC's war line carry quite the moral tension of this one: Joe Kubert's cover art places a blue-habited nun clutching a rifle in the middle of a chaotic battlefield, torn between her faith and the desperate plea of wounded soldiers urging her — "In the name of Heaven, Sister… fire!" — while an advancing enemy force and burning ruins fill the background. The anguished speech bubble, "I — I can't! I can't kill!" makes the conflict immediate and human, framing the Haunted Tank feature's July 1975 installment as something more than straightforward combat action. With Robert Kanigher writing and Sam Glanzman handling interior art, this mid-seventies DC war title continues to find unexpected heart in the grinding machinery of war.