The Fighting Man #5
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeA new recruit named Jim Towne receives a baptism by fire during combat training in Korea, sent on a dangerous nighttime patrol with Sergeant Wilcox's platoon to scout enemy positions. As the soldiers navigate the darkness behind enemy lines, they encounter unexpected obstacles including an alarm triggered by a peasant's cow, testing their nerves and resolve under pressure. The story depicts Towne's transformation from an inexperienced soldier into a hardened warrior through the intense realities of battle.
Sergeant Joe Bragg prides himself on running a tough, battle-ready outfit until Private Horace Jones—an artist, of all things—arrives as a replacement and threatens to soften the company's fighting edge. When enemy forces launch a surprise attack, the unlikely recruit proves himself in combat, but his heart remains set on recovering his stolen painting supplies from behind enemy lines. Watch as the quiet artist shows Sergeant Bragg that courage comes in unexpected forms.
Jim Towne is just another green G.I. shipped out to take a Korean beach in what will become his brutal baptism under fire. As he transforms from a terrified, untested soldier into something harder, he discovers what it truly means to survive combat—and what kind of man war can make you become. Written and drawn with unflinching intensity, "Desperate Destination" captures the raw, exhausting reality of a soldier's first hours in battle, where fear gives way to a grim kind of necessity.
When the First Division's advance stalls and the enemy begins pushing forward, headquarters calls for a dangerous patrol behind enemy lines—and Sergeant Wilcox, a seasoned recon veteran, finds himself taking orders from Lieutenant Davis, an officer unfamiliar with the unit's grueling work. As the patrol pushes deeper into hostile territory to scout a critical supply bridge, Wilcox's experience and instincts become the platoon's best hope for survival when everything falls apart.
Harry Thomas and Jim Dickson are assigned to a grueling night shift at a forward listening post, tasked with detecting enemy movement in the darkness while their fellow soldier Saunders is relieved. As the hours stretch on, a false alarm with a stray cow gives way to genuine peril when enemy soldiers launch a surprise attack in the dead of night. With danger closing in fast, Jim Dickson faces a harrowing fight for survival that will test everything he has.
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Reprinted in G. I. in Battle #3 (1957), Battleground #7 (1961), Battleground #9 (1962), War #9 (1962)
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