Our Army at War #28

This November 1954 issue of Our Army at War opens with a gripping cover by Jerry Grandenetti — two Allied soldiers bracing behind shattered wooden debris as a Nazi enemy lunges at them with a bayoneted rifle, the chaos of close-quarters combat rendered with real urgency and grit. Inside, Robert Kanigher and Irv Novick deliver four war stories, headlined by "Detour — War!" alongside "Iron Foxhole," "Battle Postcard," and "Runner." For a dime, readers in 1954 were getting some of the most earnest, boots-on-the-ground war storytelling DC had to offer.