War Heroes #19

PFC Mickey Klein recounts how he and fellow prisoners of war were forced by Chinese Communist forces to participate in a staged combat film meant to showcase communist superiority—armed with clay-bullet weapons while facing real soldiers and tanks. When the prisoners discover the deception and begin sabotaging the production, they must fight for their actual survival as the situation spirals beyond the enemy's control.

Captain Kinnard and his special forces team hold the village of Quong Dhu against a Viet Cong assault, determined to keep enemy hands off the weapons stockpiled there—even as their position grows more desperate and reinforcements seem impossibly far away. With three able-bodied men facing overwhelming numbers and their captain too badly wounded to fight, they must use every trick and ambush they can muster to keep the guerrillas at bay long enough for help to arrive. A tense stand in the heart of enemy territory where a handful of soldiers refuse to let their ground fall.

During the desperate first days of the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944, six inexperienced rear-echelon soldiers are thrust into combat as replacements near Bastogne and St. Vith, forced to confront their doubts about whether they can survive against Hitler's veteran troops. When their truck encounters a Nazi roadblock, these untested men must act on instinct, and their desperate measures set them on an unexpected path through the frozen days ahead. By week's end, they've become something they never thought possible—combat veterans who learned the hard way what it takes to get the job done.

Lt. Chuck Hannah's Sherman tank crew—a replacement gunner fresh from the stockade, practical joker Cpl. Bronc Powell at the wheel, and radio operator Twitchy Reynolds with his nose in a textbook—finds itself lost deep in the Alrenches forest during the winter of 1944. When a Nazi tank nearly destroys them and leaves Happy Hannah crippled, the misfit crew must use quick thinking and improvisation to survive: they intercept German radio traffic, set an ambush, and discover that sometimes the biggest goof-offs can come through when it counts most.