Marines Attack #6

Corporal Jason Flood throws himself into a desperate fight to neutralize enemy machine gun positions on a Japanese airfield, but when one gunner pins him down, his squadmates have to decide how far they'll go to keep him alive. Outnumbered and running low on ammunition, Flood and his men improvise a daring plan using captured enemy aircraft to turn the tide of battle—if they can survive long enough to pull it off. This hard-hitting 1965 war story captures the chaos and split-second decisions of combat, where survival often comes down to guts and quick thinking.

A badly wounded Captain Blanton and the remnants of the 2nd Platoon find themselves pinned down by overwhelming Chinese Communist forces, desperately short on ammunition and medical supplies with no immediate relief in sight. When a desperate radio call brings Air Force support and an emergency airdrop of weapons and medicine, the outnumbered Marines must hold their ground long enough for reinforcements to reach them. It's a tense struggle between survival and sacrifice as the No Hope Platoon refuses to break against impossible odds.

During the fierce early fighting on Guadalcanal in 1942, a Japanese sniper targets Captain Alwyn and his Marines of Able Company, forcing the skipper to track down his would-be assassin hidden in the island's dense vegetation. With quick thinking and determination, Captain Alwyn confronts the sniper in a dangerous one-on-one encounter high above the jungle floor. This gritty war tale captures the brutal cat-and-mouse game between opposing forces in the Pacific Theater.

Marine PFC. Cookie Manning, a green replacement sent to the 2nd Platoon, finds himself pinned down and outgunned when he stumbles into the sights of a Japanese machine gun nest on Guam. Trapped in a clearing with enemy fire closing in and his comrades convinced he's done for, Manning has to think fast and act faster if he's going to survive his first taste of combat. This tense three-pager puts a terrified boot's quick thinking against impossible odds in one of war's harshest lessons.