Military Comics #28

Blackhawk and his team launch a bombing raid on Kobe, but when anti-aircraft fire damages his plane, Blackhawk is forced to bail out and captured by Japanese forces. Thrown into the legendary Dungeon of Doom—a prison from which no one has ever escaped alive—Blackhawk must endure isolation, deprivation, and interrogation while his fellow Blackhawks work to figure out how to rescue him. It's a brutal test of will and survival as the enemy tries to break him before he can reveal the location of the team's Pacific base.

The Sniper infiltrates the notorious Valley of Death to investigate the mysterious death of an American flyer, only to discover a hidden Japanese factory producing deadly gas weapons—and to face his sworn enemy, Suratai, who's waiting to ensure he never leaves alive. With the valley's deadly secret exposed and chaos erupting around him, the Sniper must battle both Suratai and the Japanese forces while preventing their sinister cargo from reaching its destination.

Private Dogtag gets dosed with an experimental courage serum that transforms him into an unlikely hero—brave enough to capture enemy spies single-handedly—but the effects come with some decidedly awkward consequences. When the serum wears off and he realizes what he's done, Dogtag finds himself facing trouble from all sides, including an unexpected romantic complication. It's a wartime comedy that asks whether American soldiers really need a bottle to find their nerve.

When Perry Tobias and Paul Harvey's PT boat is rocked by a Japanese mine, Paul's nerve shatters—he requests a transfer, convinced he's lost his courage for combat. But as the Navy prepares to intercept a Japanese troop convoy being transported by merchant ships from the island of Rejavi to reinforce their position at Kybar, Perry and Paul find themselves called back into action against an enemy task force determined to protect the transport fleet. What unfolds is a battle that will test whether Paul can reclaim his nerve, and whether courage—as the story promises—means more than simply facing danger without fear.

Benito Mussolini's rise from wounded soldier to Italy's dictator brought genuine improvements to his nation—modernized cities, efficient railways, national pride—until his alliance with Adolf Hitler dragged the country into a war the Italian people never wanted. As Allied forces invade Sicily and the Italian mainland, King Victor Emmanuel and Marshal Pietro Badoglio make a fateful decision to remove Mussolini from power, setting off a chain of events that will reshape Italy's fate. This dramatic account traces the arc of a strongman's ambitions and the cost of following a tyrant into Europe's bloodiest conflict.