Marine War Heroes #16

A Marine left behind on the Ho Chi Minh Trail after a surgical extraction realizes he's expendable—until an ARVN radio operator and a desperate message to headquarters turn his certain death into a fighting chance. With jet fighters and heavy bombers answering his call, Corporal Jeff Rainey must survive long enough in a Viet Cong-infested tunnel to guide the strike that might save him.

When Mike Ratigan, Baker Company's iron-fisted commander, takes a bullet during a firefight in Korea, the colonel assigns the easygoing Captain Rogers to lead the men—a decision that quickly proves disastrous when the company walks into a communist ambush on open ground. With his Marines pinned down and Rogers wounded, Ratigan commandeers a chopper to rejoin his old outfit and turn the tide of battle.

A light plane pilot spots enemy forces hiding along the Phuong River and guides a Marine squad to their position, dropping a smoke marker to direct the assault. The hunters press their advantage with relentless gunfire and grenades, but the cunning Viet Cong and PAVN fighters use the jungle itself as their shield, waiting in hidden burrows to ambush from behind. It's a grim daily routine of search, engage, and survive in a war where the hunters and hunted trade places in the shadowy undergrowth.

A dozen Marines and their wounded captain find themselves cut off deep in the Philippine jungle, over a hundred miles from friendly lines and hunted by overwhelming Japanese forces. When a Japanese destroyer and troop transport appear in nearby Panang Bay, the men must improvise a desperate plan: using logs from the beach as cover, they'll attempt to sabotage the warship from within and scatter the invasion force before the troops can land and massacre the villagers sheltering them. It's a suicide mission with nothing but grenades, guts, and the kind of crazy determination that just might be their only way out.