G.I. Combat #42
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis issue contains four war stories: "Invasion Boomerang," in which American soldiers pursue German paratroopers into the mountains and trigger an avalanche that forces the enemy to surrender; "Red Squads of Berlin," where Sergeant Begley leads troops along the German-West German border and discovers suspicious terrain markers that reveal an enemy attack plan, which the Americans exploit to ambush the Reds; "Scorched-Earth Escape," depicting Soviet forces retreating and destroying supplies to prevent their capture; and an untitled story featuring American soldiers intercepting enemy food supplies being smuggled to an Eastern sector, uncovering a larger enemy operation in the process.
When Red paratroopers descend on an Arctic radar defense installation in March 1956, a small American patrol finds itself badly outnumbered and pinned down—until Jim Emmett, a soldier with deep knowledge of the frozen Alaskan terrain, convinces his sergeant to let him use the unforgiving landscape itself as their weapon. With the enemy closing in fast, Emmett devises a desperate plan to turn the ice and snow from a liability into their only fighting chance. Will his intimate knowledge of the northland be enough to save the platoon from certain annihilation?
Five American soldiers crash-land deep in enemy territory during a supply run to the French in Indochina, only to discover they've been lured by a Vietminh radio station secretly jamming Allied signals. Determined to prevent the station from capturing more U.S. equipment, the men launch a daring commando raid to destroy it—and must improvise their way back to friendly lines using whatever they can commandeer. It's a tense race against time as this makeshift crew fights through enemy territory with nothing but guts and quick thinking.
Sergeant Mike Begley dreads training a fresh platoon of inexperienced recruits at a West German defense base, but his grueling drills prove their worth when the Reds stage a surprise invasion under false pretenses. Caught between protecting his green kids and holding the line, Begley makes a desperate choice—and discovers his soldiers may have learned more than he realized.
A U.S. food convoy moving through Berlin falls under attack by Communist raiders who seize the supplies and haul them toward the Eastern Sector through a secret underground tunnel—but three G.I.s, led by Danny, decide to follow the trucks and infiltrate the operation to uncover their smuggling route. What begins as a desperate fight for survival in an abandoned factory becomes a mission to stop the theft and keep a promise to feed the people of West Berlin.
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