Navy War Heroes #7

During the Battle of Midway in June 1942, Lieutenant Marshall T. Jeffers pilots his SBD Dauntless dive bomber from the USS Enterprise as the U.S. Navy scrambles to defend the island against Admiral Yamamoto's overwhelming Japanese fleet. With American forces taking heavy losses in the early stages of combat, Jeffers and his fellow pilots must execute precision attacks at the critical moment when the tide of battle hangs in the balance.

When Ensign Dan Treganza's landing craft hits a coral reef during the assault on Saipan, one of his crew—the hapless Eddy Ross—is thrown overboard directly into enemy fire. With Japanese mortars pinning down the reef and his men wounded, Treganza faces an impossible choice: abandon Ross to certain death, or risk his entire crew to save a man everyone considers expendable. Racing against time and artillery, the ensign devises an unconventional solution that turns the tide of the moment.

On December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor came under a devastating surprise attack by Japanese carrier-based aircraft, transforming young sailors into heroes and claiming thousands of lives in a single morning of chaos and destruction. This stark account documents the scale of the catastrophe—the ships lost, the men killed and wounded—and stands as a solemn reminder of the cost of unpreparedness and the treachery nations must guard against.

Lieutenant Ed Mixler commands the U.S.S. Bainey, a destroyer escort protecting a vital convoy to Murmansk in 1942, when a sonar contact forces a dramatic confrontation with an enemy U-boat—and the capture of its code books and logs becomes key to a larger strategy. Using intelligence gathered from the captured documents, Mixler positions his ship to intercept a Nazi wolf-pack rendezvous in the fog near Faroe Island, setting up a tense underwater cat-and-mouse game with consequences far beyond a single engagement. It's a taut tale of naval warfare where quick thinking, salvage under fire, and tactical cunning turn the tide in the Atlantic.

Captain Rossen bears the nickname "Captain Jinx" after losing two ships in combat, a reputation that threatens to derail his naval career even as his superiors recognize his tactical brilliance. When a Japanese torpedo threatens a nearby carrier, Rossen must make an impossible choice: sacrifice his own cruiser to save thousands of men, and in a desperate moment of action, he manages to detonate the torpedo before it strikes. His crew witnesses an act of heroism that might finally prove the curse of his nickname is nothing more than bad luck—or perhaps something far more.

Captain Samuel Nicholas and his marines undertake a daring amphibious assault on the British island of New Providence in the Bahamas on March 3, 1776, under Commodore Esek Hopkins's command. With seventy-one cannons positioned to repel the attack and naval support from the Providence and Wasp laying down cover fire, the marines must storm ashore and seize the fortified position. This bold raid would become the Continental Navy's first offensive victory and forge an enduring tradition of Marine valor.