Special War Series #2
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free"The Company of the Dead" depicts a military unit's desperate struggle during wartime. With only three platoon members remaining, the soldiers undertake a dangerous mission involving a C-82 transport plane, parachute drops of ammunition and supplies, and a crippled tank that must be repaired and returned to combat. A French girl assists PFC Reeder with a Thompson submachine gun as they face enemy forces, while the damaged tank crew fights to complete repairs and rejoin their unit despite overwhelming odds.
When Lt. Marlo's heavy tank breaks down far behind Communist lines, he and his crew find themselves marooned and under relentless attack—with ammunition running low and enemy forces closing in from all sides. With air support from a determined F-86 Sabre jet pilot and an emergency supply drop, the isolated tank crew faces a desperate fight to survive long enough for rescue and repairs. This wartime drama captures the grit and determination of soldiers caught deep in hostile territory with nowhere to go but forward.
PFC. Fred Reeder is a soldier haunted by his mother's teachings—a man unwilling to kill, even when facing Nazi soldiers occupying a French farmhouse. When he discovers the building harbors wounded French Resistance fighters and a crucial underground radio transmitter, Reeder must decide whether his moral convictions can survive the brutal calculus of war. Reluctant to pull the trigger but determined to protect those who can't fight back, he finds his pacifist resolve tested in ways he never imagined.
Second Lieutenant Irving Wardbill never wanted to lead men in combat, but the Army has other plans—reassigning the former accounting student from his Pentagon desk to Korea in 1952 to command the Third Platoon. Facing subzero temperatures, contemptuous troops who won't follow his orders, and an imminent dawn attack, Wardbill struggles to prove himself worthy of the men whose lives depend on him, even as his own confidence crumbles under the weight of command.
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Reprinted in Fightin' Army #171 (1984)
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