Strange Worlds #22

With the U.S. invasion fleet blocked by impregnable Red artillery hidden in a North Korean cliff, a daring Marine force launches Operation Boomerang—a submarine-delivered raid to seize the abandoned cruiser Tillson and turn her guns against the very batteries that crippled her. Racing through enemy territory and across freezing waters, the Marines fight their way aboard the hulk to reclaim the ship's firepower, but alerting the shore guns means they're fighting the clock as well as the enemy.

Sergeant Steve Andrews is assigned a dangerous rescue mission behind enemy lines—extracting a captured operative before his execution at dawn—but his reluctant partner is "the Runt," a diminutive Marine determined to prove that size has nothing to do with a soldier's worth. As Steve and Hal Sands infiltrate enemy territory, their clashing perspectives on courage and sacrifice will be tested in ways neither anticipated.

Ted Norman is a hot-shot Marine pilot who cares more about racking up kills than following orders, determined to outdo his ace brother Jon in a dangerous personal competition. When a reckless stunt leads to a fellow pilot's death, Ted faces court-martial—but the situation spirals into a desperate rescue mission when Jon crashes behind enemy lines on a hostile island. It's a story about a glory-seeker forced to learn what really matters when his brother's life is on the line.

During the Korean War, the U.S. submarine Arcturus rescues a downed American pilot from a North Korean shore, but the rescue triggers a desperate battle as the sub faces enemy destroyers and fighter jets with damaged diving controls. When a friendly U.N. plane arrives to help, the submarine crew and the grateful airman must work together to survive overwhelming odds in a harrowing clash of sea and sky power.