Military Comics #32

The Death Patrol meant to celebrate Del Van Dyne's birthday while he sat it out on base—but when the squad learns that Emperor Hirohito is also having a birthday that same day, they hatch a plan to swing across the Pacific and grab him a real gift. What starts as a cocky raid on Tokyo turns into a desperate scramble when Del discovers what his teammates were really after all along.

In "Suratai's Trap for the Sniper," a desperate Japanese officer is given one last chance to redeem himself by leading a group of captured soldiers in a dangerous mission—using them as bait to draw out the elusive Allied sniper. With his reputation on the line and his superiors watching, Suratai must navigate the tension between command and survival, turning the tide of war through cunning rather than force.

When a Chicago gangster named Killer Kane is forcibly brought aboard a cargo ship headed for the Pacific theater, he gets more than he bargained for—a torpedo, a rescue by a PT boat crew, and the chance to prove that street fighting and naval warfare aren't so different after all. As Kane's appetite for combat grows fiercer with each encounter, the line between reckless bravado and genuine sacrifice starts to blur. This tale of unexpected redemption shows that sometimes the toughest customer finds his true calling in the heat of battle.

When a tropical hurricane grounds an entire bomber squadron, Lieutenant James Cook refuses to abandon the mission—he takes his Mitchell bomber solo straight into the teeth of the storm toward Rabaul. Flying without a crew and acting as pilot, navigator, bombardier, and gunner all at once, Cook pushes through impossible weather and enemy fire to strike the Japanese base. This is the true story of one man's defiant raid that proves some pilots simply don't know when to quit.

When General Stilwell's forces push into Japanese-held Burma, Corporal Werner Katz—a German-born American whose father died under Nazi oppression—leads the advance as point man for the attack. As Katz and his squad engage the enemy, they must break through successive defensive positions while dealing with ambushes and overwhelming fire, all while the larger campaign unfolds around them. This true-war account captures one soldier's courage in the opening phase of a major Allied operation in the Pacific theater.