Military Comics #35

When the merchant vessel Prince of Indore vanishes near the notorious Shipwreck Island—where countless ships have met mysterious fates—the Blackhawks are called in to investigate. Eve Rice, a determined female photographer, stows away aboard the doomed ship determined to prove herself, only to disappear along with the entire crew, leaving the team with nothing but a cryptic message and a compact. Now the Blackhawks must uncover what sinister force lurks in the lagoon before more lives are lost.

Choo-Choo LaMoe's dreams of stardom collide with reality when her roommate Cherry Lane impulsively takes her place at a theatrical audition, leaving Choo-Choo to cover for her at work—and setting off a chaotic chain of misunderstandings that lands both of them in hot water. This wartime humor story follows two working girls trying to make their way while their ambitions keep getting in the way of their paychecks.

When a young Scottish soldier named Tyke MacDougall breaks through enemy lines to summon help for his besieged regiment, he stumbles upon the crew of a damaged PT boat—and together they race back toward Japanese-held territory in a desperate bid to turn the tide. With supplies running low, their boat crippled, and danger closing in from all sides, Tyke discovers that the bugle he was denied a chance to play officially might be exactly what his trapped comrades need to hear.

Marines gather at a South Pacific base to prepare for a new offensive, driven by the memory of a heroic last stand. "See You on Wake Island, Nippo!" captures the resolve of soldiers fighting their way back toward a reckoning in the Pacific theater.

When the Japanese threatened to sweep across New Guinea in 1945, the Second Battalion of the 126th Infantry—mostly Michigan lumberjacks—was tasked with an almost impossible mission: march over 200 miles through the Owen Stanley Mountains to strike at the enemy's flank. Battling torrential rain, fever, starvation, and the brutal terrain itself, these American soldiers endured one of the war's grimest ordeals to reach the battlefield. Once they break through the jungle and mountains, they join the Australians in a decisive push that turns the tide of the New Guinea campaign.