True Comics #38

This unlikely warship's troubles began before she even touched water—stranded on the launching ways in 1843, America's first iron-hulled naval vessel defied skeptics by mysteriously freeing herself overnight. From that inauspicious start, the U.S.S. Michigan endured a string of indignities: stripped of her heavy guns by diplomatic decree, fitted with a primitive engine requiring backbreaking manual labor to reverse, renamed and forgotten, and ultimately abandoned nameless on a mudbank—a vessel whose bad luck seemed written into her very iron hull.

During World War II, military commanders discover that accurate weather forecasting can make or break a battle—and when a German escape is covered by fog while British bombers are grounded, the Allies realize they need experts like Dr. Irving P. Krick to predict conditions months in advance. After the U.S. Army Air Corps brings Krick and his newly-trained weather team on board, their long-range forecasts prove crucial to the success of major operations, from the North African landings to D-Day itself.

A British torpedo bomber crew forced down near the Greek coast falls into Italian hands, only to discover their captors are honorable soldiers who treat them with unexpected decency. When the crew sees a chance to escape during a transfer flight to an internment camp, they face a moral dilemma—repay kindness with betrayal, or accept their fate as prisoners of war. What unfolds is a tale where both sides prove that honor can survive even in the chaos of conflict.