Heroic Comics #18

When Japanese dive bombers strike the U.S.S. Marblehead in the Philippine waters on February 4th, 1942, Coxswain Claude Becker finds himself racing against time and fire to rescue twenty trapped sailors from the flooded magazine below deck. Drawing on grit and determination, this husky seaman from Ogden, Utah battles the blazing wreckage and his own injuries to pull his shipmates to safety while the crippled cruiser fights to stay afloat. It's a tale of uncommon courage in the chaos of war that earned Becker recognition far beyond the engine rooms where he began.

A crippled B-17 named Phyllis limps back from a bombing run over France with a wounded crew fighting off Nazi fighters at every turn. As Sgt. Bouthiller, Sgt. Coburn, and their fellow airmen battle oxygen deprivation, flak, and relentless Focke-Wulf attacks, pilot Lt. Long must nurse the damaged fortress through a gauntlet of enemy fire toward the safety of English shores. This true account celebrates the engineering and courage that kept an American bomber—and its brave young crew—in the fight.