War Heroes #27

Two brothers find themselves on opposite sides of a desperate rescue during a firebombing raid on Tokyo—Mel piloting a crippled B-29 bomber with its wounded crew, and Tommy flying combat cover in a P-51 Mustang running on fumes. When a Japanese destroyer threatens to sink the Navy submarine waiting to pick up survivors, Tommy must make an impossible choice to buy his brother and the crew time to escape. This war tale from War Heroes #27 captures the raw courage and grim calculation of men caught in the Pacific theater's most dangerous moments.

Lt. Walt Waines leads his tank element through the French village of Ste. Margerie, where a quick-thinking local has raised the American flag to draw enemy fire—a risky gambit that exposes a hidden German position and forces Waines and his crew to fight their way through intense combat. Trapped in a building with French Resistance fighters, Waines must find a way to turn the tide before the Nazis' heavy guns reduce their shelter to rubble.

In North Africa, 1942, American Major Earnie Potter's Sherman tank is destroyed by German forces, leaving him and his crew stranded—until British Major Terrance Graeme's battered Devil's Brigade tanks arrive and save them from certain death. Potter agrees to pilot one of Graeme's superior Centurion tanks, but soon discovers his new commanding officer is obsessed with a dangerous, singular mission: hunting down Field-Marshal Rommel himself across the desert. As Graeme pursues a particular German tank with reckless abandon, Potter realizes he's trapped in a suicidal "Fox Hunt" he never signed up for, bound by their agreement and too far from Allied lines to escape on foot.