War and Attack #58

A fighter pilot stranded at a Luzon airfield in 1942 finds himself trapped between a Japanese advance and his own crippled plane—but when he finally coaxes his engine to life, a desperate gamble to survive turns into something far more consequential. Outnumbered and alone, he discovers that one determined pilot with a working aircraft might be exactly what the Filipino resistance needs to turn the tide on the island.

Three Morton brothers have made names for themselves in wartime—a fighter pilot with confirmed kills, a Navy executive officer, a decorated airborne lieutenant—but PFC. Harold Morton, the family runt, has bounced through three service branches only to land in the infantry, where he's mocked as a misfit and a screw-up. When the sergeant discovers German tanks and infantry have reoccupied a village they'd reported clear, and a quartermaster convoy full of rear-echelon troops is heading straight into a trap at dawn, Harold finds himself on guard duty, watching helplessly as the slaughter is about to unfold. What happens next will test whether the soldier everyone's written off as hopeless has something his decorated brothers don't.

When the Japanese air force dominated Chinese skies without opposition, a retiring American fighter pilot named Capt. Claire L. Chennault was hired to build an air force from scratch—recruiting ninety American pilots and arming them with a hundred Curtiss Hawks to take on the invaders. The Flying Tigers trained hard, learned Japanese tactics, and flew countless missions against both aerial attackers and ground forces, turning the tide when China needed it most.

Sgt. Mike Boland leads a swift American commando strike against a Nazi barracks in Brittany to strike back at General Dietz, a brutal officer terrorizing the French underground—but when the raid goes wrong, Boland finds himself captured and facing Gestapo interrogation. Back aboard their PT boat, Captain Dodd and his men realize their sergeant knows far too much about the Resistance network and OSS operations to risk falling into Nazi hands, so they mount a desperate midnight rescue mission to pull him out before the interrogators break him.