G.I. Combat #23
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "Beachhead Inferno," three American soldiers return to a war-torn island from the Korean War to establish a weather station, only to face unsettling tensions when one, Barney, insists he sees North Korean troops—his claims dismissed as delusions. But when an ambush proves him right, his instincts become their only defense. A tense, grounded wartime tale from 1955, with stark visuals by Dick Dillin and Chuck Cuidera on the cover.
When American Marines storm the beach at Yat Chi, they find themselves pinned down by a fearsome armored railroad fortress that emerges from the woods to wreak havoc on their advance—a mobile weapon that outmatches their light tanks and vanishes back into cover before artillery can find it. Two bitter rivals from the same hometown, Dan Murphy and Red Halloran, who've hated each other since childhood and followed each other into the Corps, see a dangerous chance to turn the tide, though neither trusts the other an inch. As night falls, a desperate plan takes shape that may be the only way to stop the enemy gun—if the two men can survive working together.
Three G.I.s on furlough in Italy spot a familiar enemy agent and decide to tail him into the mountains—only to stumble onto a massive Red arsenal hidden in a fortress. When the entrance seals behind them and escape routes crumble under enemy fire, Sergeant Sandy Drake and his men must use their wits and a conveniently fueled-up tank to blast their way out and stop whatever sinister plot Vantos has been orchestrating.
Baseball star PFC Danny Carr arrives at a Korean combat post as a cocky replacement, bringing habits honed in the cheering crowds back home—but his sergeant has other plans for teaching him that survival depends on discipline and teamwork, not showboating. When a careless mistake nearly gives away their position to enemy forces, Carr discovers that the skills that made him an ace pitcher might be exactly what his squad needs to stay alive. A sharp wartime story about learning that there's no room for grandstanding when lives are on the line.
In "Unseen Enemy," three American soldiers return to a remote island they once liberated during the Korean War to establish a weather station. When Barney insists he’s seen North Korean soldiers lurking in the jungle, his comrades dismiss him as haunted by past battles—until an ambush proves he wasn’t imagining things.
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↩ Reprints G.I. Combat #3 (1953), G.I. Combat #6 (1953)
Reprinted in Yanks in Battle #4 (1956), Serie-nytt [Serienytt] #11/1959 (1959)
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