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Cover: Alice Kirkpatrick
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Navy Patrol #3

Sep 1955 · Stanley Morse · 0.10 USD
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"Operation Clean Sea" follows Admiral James F. McClelland and his task force as they devise a plan to neutralize Chinese Communist mines threatening Allied shipping at a secret port in Korea designated X-2. When Navy Intelligence reports that six enemy submarines have deployed mines in the area, the Admiral assembles experts to determine the best method for removing them without alerting the enemy. The operation culminates in a naval battle where carrier-based planes attack the German warship Bismarck, with one torpedo scoring a hit that damages the vessel; the damaged Bismarck is ultimately sunk by the cruiser Dorsetshire, with the final blow delivered beneath the waves as she capsizes and slips beneath the ocean.

Contains 8 stories
Convoy!
3 pp · War

In the midst of a tense Atlantic convoy, a German U-boat strikes a munitions ship, sending the merchant sailors into panic. As the destroyer races to hunt the sub, a critical message arrives: the Bismarck is breaking out into the Atlantic, forcing the destroyer to leave the convoy despite the growing vulnerability of the ships it was protecting.

The Sighting!
3 pp · War

A British naval patrol spots the German battleship Bismarck in a Norwegian fiord, triggering urgent orders to track and intercept the threat before it can break out into the Atlantic. With limited time and imperfectly tested ships, the Royal Navy must race to reinforce its forces and prevent the Bismarck from disrupting vital convoys.

Contact!
3 pp · War

A young yeoman on the bridge of the cruiser Norfolk is thrilled to relay crucial position reports that help track the German battleship Bismarck and Prinz Eugen through the fog. As the British task force closes in, the Norfolk and Suffolk execute a daring maneuver to draw the enemy’s fire and maintain contact, setting the stage for a climactic naval engagement.

Stop the Target!
3 pp · War

In the thick of a storm-lashed naval pursuit, British forces race to intercept the Bismarck after the Hood’s destruction, relying on a task force now diverted from the Mediterranean. As fog and dwindling fuel threaten to break contact, a desperate attempt to slow the German battleship with nine untrained pilots and torpedo-equipped aircraft begins—just as the last destroyers must retreat and the cruiser Suffolk reports a final, devastating loss of track.

One Hundred to One Shot!
2 pp · War

A British naval task force, low on fuel and racing against time, faces a desperate challenge as the Bismarck heads toward the safety of the French coast. With only carrier-based planes and a single chance to stop the battleship, pilots launch a daring torpedo attack in a high-stakes effort to alter the course of the mission.

Attack!
4 pp · War

The British naval task force closes in on the damaged Bismarck, engaging her with overwhelming firepower as she struggles to defend herself. With the crippled battleship listing and her guns silenced, the British press their attack, determined to sink her before enemy aircraft or submarines arrive.

To The Bottom!
2 pp · Western-Frontier
...Aftermath!
3 pp · War

After a German U-boat attacks a vulnerable freighter in the convoy, the merchant crew fights desperately to save their ship and vital war cargo, refusing to abandon it even as the submarine closes in for the kill. Just as all seems lost, destroyers arrive on the scene, forcing the U-boat to retreat—only to learn the war has shifted: the Bismarck has been sunk, and the convoy’s perilous journey has finally reached safety.

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Raw (Good) $121
CGC 5.5 · 1 in census $290*
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Full credits

artist, inker Eugene Hughes
letterer Ben Oda
cover pencils, inks Alice Kirkpatrick

Reprints

Reprinted in Marines in Battle #[nn] (1955), Navy Patrol #[nn] (1955), Marines in Battle [1/- Streamline Comic] #[nn] (1958), Navy Patrol Bumper Comic #[1]

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