Marines Attack #9

When Tex Garland is sent to request air support during a brutal assault on a ridge, he returns to find his entire unit gone—wiped out by Chinese forces with no bodies to account for. Haunted by the mystery of the Ghost Squad's fate and struggling to accept what his mind knows to be true, Garland throws himself into combat with his new squad, fighting with a desperate intensity born from uncertainty and grief. The war grinds on as this young Marine carries the weight of his missing comrades into each new battle.

A timid grocery clerk and a cocky football player are forced into combat as a machine-gun team when they ship out to Korea in 1966. When the Chinese breakthrough comes and the outfit faces being overrun, Albert Bussey sheds his "Chicken" nickname to become the steady backbone that keeps both the gun firing and his partner Hawk O'Grady standing—showing that real courage isn't about fearlessness, but about holding the line when it matters most.

A Marine squad discovers the Viet Cong's deadly pattern: wait until the helicopter lifts off, then strike the vulnerable bird with heavy fire. When a young Marine named Jarvis proposes leaving one man behind as a hidden "anchor"—to pin down the enemy while the chopper escapes—the sergeant thinks it's worth a try. When the tactic is put to the test in a heavy downpour, the hidden Marine must hold his ground alone against overwhelming odds.

When the United States Marines were first authorized by the Continental Congress in 1775, they served aboard Navy vessels as disciplinarians and sharpshooters—but President George Washington's 1798 decision to establish them as a separate service within the Navy set the stage for their evolution into one of America's most formidable fighting forces. From their foresighted creation of an amphibious warfare school in 1921 through their pivotal role in the Pacific during World War II, Korea, and into the conflict in Vietnam, the Marines have repeatedly proven their ability to master new terrain and tactics, adapting to challenges no one else predicted and succeeding where conventional wisdom said they couldn't.