U.S. Paratroops #8

When U.N. jet pilots spot Communist helicopters mysteriously ferrying cargo into a strategically worthless Korean valley, intelligence operatives are sent in to investigate—and discover the Reds are mining uranium. After the team's radio transmission is cut off, Major Sundstrom leads a 75-man paratrooper strike force to drop into the hidden valley under cover of darkness and seize the mine before the enemy can exploit it. With explosives, cunning tactics, and sheer fighting skill, the paratroopers execute a daring assault that will determine control of a critical resource.

A military worker named Eddie shows up despite receiving a firing notice, armed with an unexpected technicality: the envelope carrying his dismissal came stamped "Return After Five Days." This humor tale plays up the clash between official orders and clever loopholes in a 1958 paratroops unit.

Captain Jim Hale and his paratroopers are dropped into a mysterious sector of the Korean front to investigate why a South Korean outfit has gone silent—only to discover an entire unit dead without visible wounds. When medical examination reveals the enemy is waging germ warfare, Hale's team must locate and destroy the underground laboratory responsible for breeding the deadly disease. With immunizations in hand and explosives ready, the paratroopers launch a daring raid deep behind enemy lines to stop the biological threat before it spreads.

Captain Jim Anderson leads a daring paratroop raid deep into forbidden Manchuria to secure photographic proof of illegal prisoner camps that the enemy denies exist—but the mission hits trouble the moment the team jumps, when they discover a traitor in their midst has tipped off the opposition. Using quick thinking and the captured enemy spy as an unwilling asset, Anderson improvises a dangerous infiltration of the prison camp itself to gather the evidence that will expose the truth at the negotiation table.

A U.S. paratrooper lands behind enemy lines in North Korea carrying orders for a crucial kidnapping mission—but enemy forces intercept the intelligence, forcing the Screaming Eagles to improvise on the fly. When a speeding train carrying a captured Red general threatens to escape across the Manchurian border with vital battle plans, the elite airborne unit executes a daring raid, dropping directly onto the moving boxcars to snatch both the general and the documents that could turn the tide of the conflict. With enemy jets closing in and the general willing to destroy the papers rather than surrender them, the paratroopers race against time to extract their prize and make it back to friendly territory.