Military Comics #25

In "Wang the Tiger," Chop-Chop teams up with the defiant resistance fighter Mandarin Wang in Ching-Wu, China, as they confront enemy forces using nothing but ancient weapons and sheer grit. The story blends wartime tension with a unique clash of old and new, as two unlikely allies take on a modern threat with timeless courage.

In "The Return of Suratai," a wartime tale from Military Comics #25, the hardened soldier Suratai faces a harrowing choice that fractures his loyalty and lands him in prison—his superior deems his actions unforgivable, even as the mission's stakes remain dangerously high.

In this lighthearted 1944 installment from Military Comics #25, Jo, a gung-ho recruit, stumbles into a comical military tradition when he collects a dollar from each of two lieutenants—unaware they were simply following the custom of rewarding the first soldier who salutes them. Eager for a bigger payday, Jo sets his sights on a general, hoping to cash in on the next salute.

Lieutenant William Cone Stell, known as "The Flying Parson," trades his pulpit for the cockpit of a B-26 Marauder, flying dangerous bombing runs over enemy territory from an air base in Algeria during World War II. When a German ME-109 fighter closes in on his crew, Stell and his gunner Sergeant Farr must fight back to survive the deadly encounter. A former pastor turned combat pilot, Stell fights with one goal in mind: to finish the war and return home to preach peace.

During a tense convoy escort mission, the United States Coast Guard Cutter Campbell under Commander James Hirshfield encounters German submarines in the Atlantic and engages in a fierce twenty-four-hour battle involving multiple depth-charge attacks, surface pursuits, and desperate maneuvers. As the Campbell closes in on enemy vessel after enemy vessel, her crew faces increasingly dire circumstances that test both their combat readiness and their seamanship.