Two-Fisted Tales #16

In "Signal Corps!", a young soldier in a wartime Signal Corps unit struggles with his role when he dismisses the need for a rifle—only to face sudden danger when enemy snipers ambush the group from a nearby schoolhouse. As civilians hastily evacuate just before the unit moves out, the tension mounts in the quiet chaos of the front lines.

In "Pearl Divers!", Mike, weary from picking shells in the nearly barren grounds, calls it quits—until Rex Kingdom arrives with his schooner, the Kingdom Come, and announces a bold new dive for pearls. With Mike and Rex joining forces to split the haul evenly, the promise of riches sets them on a dangerous course. But when Rex is attacked by a tiger shark on his second dive, suspicion begins to rise—especially when he discovers Mike tampered with his ballast, using ground salt-beef to draw the beast.

In the final days of World War II, Toshio, a Japanese prisoner of war held by the Russians, sends a desperate letter home to his mother, unaware of the catastrophe that has struck Nagasaki. On August 5, 1945, his mother receives the letter just hours before the atomic bomb devastates her city, leaving her to mourn the loss of her daughter-in-law and one grandchild—though a single child survives, a fragile thread of hope in the aftermath.