Marines Attack #4
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThe main story "The New Breed" depicts a Marine combat operation where soldiers engage enemy forces, with one soldier urging his comrades into battle. A secondary story titled "Trapped" recounts the autobiography of Dr. Hans Killmer, a German biochemist born in Berlin in 1910 whose father worked for the famous bio-chemist Dr. Ludwig Killmer; Killmer describes his escape from Nazi Germany, his forced service on the German naval raider Blitzer, and his mission to destroy Allied shipping. The narrative continues with military dialogue involving Captain Burke, Lieutenant Nolton, and Sergeant discussing a tank engagement and a Bazooka team attack, with orders given to report back to Captain Burke.
A young man claiming to be a colonel from a fictional "Joppa" nation is captured by a Marine reconnaissance squad during a push through a contested village, prompting Sergeant Dizzy Richter to question him while the squad prepares for an ambush. As the Marines set up a perimeter and await intelligence officers, the atmosphere grows tense—especially when the man insists he knows enemy plans and warns of a hidden Chinese soldier, leading to a sudden, deadly confrontation.
A Marine pilot crashes behind enemy lines after being shot down, stranded and unaware if his distress call was received. With enemy patrols closing in and his plane on fire, he’s rescued by a coordinated effort involving air support and a daring ground patrol from Baker Company, who had been tracking his location all along.
Captain Jimbo Smith is wounded and captured by Japanese forces during a fierce firefight on Guadalcanal in 1942. His comrade, Corporal Ellis, vows to rescue him after learning the Japanese may use truth serums on prisoners, risking the exposure of vital intelligence. Together with Lieutenant Rezik and a native guide, Ellis leads a daring nighttime mission to infiltrate a Japanese-held camp and free the captured Marines.
In the wake of the Korean War's outbreak, 1st Lt. T.L. Nolton, a young Marine whose romance with Lt. Col. Hobart Quine’s daughter Ellen has drawn the colonel’s disapproval, is deployed to the Pusan Perimeter. After stepping in to lead a platoon following the death of its previous leader, Nolton performs a daring act of bravery by scaling a hostile tank and destroying it with a grenade—though no one witnesses it, leaving him to face skepticism and suspicion from his superiors.
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Reprinted in Battlefield Action #89 (1984)
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