G.I. Combat #36

Captain Joe Kendall and his paratroop unit find themselves marooned in the Indo-Chinese jungle after an engine failure forces their transport plane down—and they soon discover they've crash-landed squarely behind Communist Viet Minh lines. With the plane crippled and repairs underway, Kendall must keep enemy patrols away from their position through the night, leading them on a desperate chase through dense jungle. What begins as a frantic delaying action takes an unexpected turn when the Americans stumble upon something that changes everything about their mission.

A fugitive and an ex-cop find themselves in the same Korean foxhole, forced together by circumstances neither expected—and then surrounded by enemy forces that make their old conflict seem insignificant. When a hand grenade threatens the life of the one man hunting him down, one of these two soldiers must make a choice that could change everything between them. Written by an unspecified creator and illustrated with the gritty intensity G.I. Combat is known for, "Hand Grenade Hero" proves that sometimes the battlefield reveals who a person really is.

When Sergeant Lewis leads a patrol across Greenland's frozen wastes, his fellow Sergeant Hoyt wastes no time calling him out as a coward—especially compared to his own unflinching confidence. But when enemy forces ambush the patrol and Lewis finds himself cut off from the group, something unexpected awakens in him that neither man could have predicted. In this 1956 Cold War tale, discover what real courage looks like when it emerges from the most unlikely place.

American engineers fighting in Korea face a nightly ordeal: each evening, a skilled Red MiG pilot they call "Sundown Sam" screams through the mountain pass to destroy their vital bridge before it can be completed. When standard air cover proves ineffective, Corporal Jim Lane, a powerfully built Tennessee engineer, devises an unconventional trap using heavy cable strung across the pass—a gambit that could finally turn the tide in their favor, if the enemy pilot doesn't spot it first. Watch as Lane's quick thinking and the platoon's determination converge in a climactic confrontation at sunset.