Our Fighting Forces #116

In "Peril from the Casbah!", the Hellcats race through a moonlit Paris cemetery, pursued by fanatical assassins sent by the Nazis—suicide bombers imported from the East. With the Germans unleashing a deadly secret weapon on civilian trains, Mlle. Marie leads her squad through ambushes and explosions, fighting their way to the truth behind the attack. As the dust settles, Lt. Hunter carries a wounded Marie from the battlefield, the danger not yet over.

In "Combat Cowboy," Bronco—whose mind drifts to images of the Old West as he digs foxholes—clings to a fierce, personal belief in the Army as his true home. When Nazi forces launch a brutal assault, he fights desperately to hold his position, his last thoughts a quiet irony: he’d never been further west than Brooklyn. The story ends with the grim discovery of his fate, a quiet punchline echoing the weight of his name and the cost of war.

In the quiet tension of wartime, Jo’s father, Commander Frank, once lost his ship to a U-boat in World War I—now, decades later, his son finds himself commanding the very same salvaged vessel, refitted and renamed. Though too slow to stand against modern warships, the old ship holds a ghost of its past, and when a Nazi battleship looms, it’s the crew’s courage, not speed, that decides their fate.