The Blazing Combat Collection #[nn]
"Viet-Cong!" is a stark, grounded wartime tale from the 2018 Fantagraphics collection *The Blazing Combat Collection*, blending historical reflection with personal duty. Written by Archie Goodwin and Wally Wood, with art by Wallace Wood and Ralph Reese, and inks by Reese, Adkins, and Wood, the story centers on an officer of the JV-44 Commando Fighter Group confronting the legacy of the ME-262’s unrealized potential—its revolutionary design stifled by Hitler’s vision, now echoing in his own order to destroy his own plane. The cover, by Eugene Colan, captures the tension of that final moment.
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An officer of the JV-44 Commando Fighter Group gathers around his plane and was reminded that, back in 1938, that General Galland took up the ME-262 for a test flight, and he was impressed. But Hitler was not impressed and only viewed the plane as a blitz bomber, not a fighter, thus destroying its effectiveness, and slowing the plane down enough to be shot down by enemy fighters. Thus, the plane never realized its full potential, and because it was so late in the war, which was as good as lost, the officer is ordered to set fire to his plane.
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