Tell It to the Marines #9

When jet pilot Jack Mayberry is called back to active duty with the Marines after years in civilian life, he finds himself struggling to readjust—and even more frustrated when his commanding officer, the legendary Col. Billy Trimble, grounds him for his erratic flying over Korea. But when his friend and fellow pilot Sam Loftus shows up unfit for duty, Mayberry takes matters into his own hands, secretly taking the controls for a critical strike mission that forces him to confront both the enemy and his own doubts about whether he's got what it takes anymore. High-altitude dogfighting and hard-won lessons about duty collide in this tense Korean War tale.

A young Marine orderly struggles to win over his demanding skipper aboard a Navy cruiser, until a chance encounter with the ship's medical officer reveals the captain's hidden pain—a missed battle opportunity that's made him hard on his crew. When Japanese forces unexpectedly appear in a narrow passage threatening the invasion fleet, the skipper finally gets his chance at action, and the orderly discovers what true loyalty to his officer really means. In this pulse-pounding 1954 war story, a routine escort mission becomes a desperate last stand where a Marine's devotion is tested in fire and smoke.

A Marine captain and his battle-weary battalion, fresh off Saipan, are shipped to Europe in August 1944 for what's promised to be a quiet support role—until they land on the island of St. Pierre and discover a German trap waiting in the town below. With hostages held in the local church and the enemy dug in for a fight, the captain must find a way to rescue the civilians and neutralize the threat before the situation spirals beyond his control.