G.I. Combat #26

When a surprise enemy airborne assault hits Coral Island, a U.S. naval depot in the Pacific, a skeleton crew of Marines must hold the line against overwhelming odds and dwindling firepower. With their tanks destroyed, jets grounded, and anti-aircraft batteries knocked out, the resourceful leathernecks improvise a desperate defense by converting naval weapons—depth charges and torpedoes—into makeshift field artillery. It's a race against time to keep the enemy at bay until reinforcements arrive, and only Marine ingenuity stands between the base and catastrophe.

When Communist raiders seize weapons and fortifications from Nationalist China, the U.S. Navy scrambles to stop their convoy before it reaches safety at Amoy Harbor—and discovers the submarine *Starfish* is the only vessel in position to intercept. The *Starfish's* commander faces an impossible choice: crippled by a destroyer's direct hit that shears off the sub's periscope, he must find a desperate way to locate and target the enemy ships before they slip away.

When Communist forces secretly land on Japan's coast and ambush a joint U.S.-Japanese military exercise, General Meade's paratroopers find themselves caught between the disguised Red army and the defending Japanese troops. Outgunned and cut off from the sea, the American G.I.s must hold their ground against overwhelming odds—and discover an unexpected advantage when they seize one of the enemy's own tanks to turn the tide of battle.

Trapped behind enemy lines after their cargo plane crashes in Burma, Captain Jarvis and his G.I.s must find an ingenious way to deliver food to the starving citizens of Bhamo—turning their wrecked fuselage into an improvised river vessel to outrun Communist guerrillas determined to stop them. With both the enemy and the river itself working against them, the men race against time to reach the desperate villagers before the Reds cut off their only route to safety.