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Atom Age Combat #3 (1959)

Fago Magazines · 1959 · 36 pages

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Contains 8 stories
Fear
1 pp · science fiction
The Difference a Day Makes
6 pp · war

In this 1959 war tale, the green replacements of Dog Company's 1st Platoon face their baptism of fire in a limited atomic conflict when their sergeant is wounded early in their first combat mission, leaving Hennessy to take command of inexperienced soldiers thrust suddenly into the heat of battle. Over the course of a single day, these nervous recruits must navigate machine gun nests, enemy armor, and booby traps as they learn what combat truly demands—and discover just how much they can change when put to the test.

Third Element
5 pp · science fiction
Marsh (also in flashback)

When two opposing Earth powers land on the moon to secure the strategic high ground of the atomic age, Marsh and his crew face off against their rivals in a desperate battle for supremacy. The clash between the two elements—representing competing ideologies locked in a struggle for global dominance—escalates toward a climax on the alien landscape. But as the conflict reaches its turning point, the combatants discover a third element they hadn't anticipated, one that changes everything.

Breaking Point
6 pp · war

Major Tom Drake ejects from his crippled jet only to parachute directly behind enemy lines, where he's captured and subjected to a brutal cycle of physical punishment and psychological manipulation designed to break his resolve. As his captors escalate their tactics—alternating torture with false comfort—Drake must steel himself against every method they employ to extract the location of his secret strike base. A tense battle of wills unfolds as the enemy officer closes in, convinced he's finally pushed the American pilot to his breaking point.

Alternate Plan
5 pp · war

A submarine team infiltrates an enemy harbor with nuclear mines, but when their escape route gets cut off, they're forced to improvise—sending their empty minisub as a decoy while they make a desperate swim for it. With the odds stacked impossibly against them and the harbor erupting in chaos, their only shot at survival depends on a hair-thin rescue window and nerves of steel.

An H-Bomb Is Coming!
5 pp · war

A U.S. naval task force spreads across thousands of miles of open ocean to undertake the most dangerous mission in military history: deliberately drawing enemy fire to absorb an incoming H-bomb strike before it can reach American soil. As the countdown to atomic attack begins, the carrier and her crew face wave after wave of enemy fighters and missiles, racing against time to deploy their experimental countermeasures before the final, deadly payload arrives.

The Puzzle
4 pp · science fiction

Humanity reaches Mars determined to fight back against mysterious missiles that have caged Earth and the Moon—only to discover the true enemy is something far stranger than any alien army. When soldiers breach the Martian stronghold expecting a last stand, they uncover an automated guardian left behind by an ancient, extinct civilization, a mechanical mind tasked with protecting the galaxy itself. "The Puzzle" challenges everything mankind thought it knew about the cosmos and its place within it.

Danger!
1 pp · war

A Navy jet pilot testing his Grumman F1F5 cannon fires a burst over the Atlantic, but when his engine suddenly fails and he's forced to crash-land, investigators make a chilling discovery: his own shells have caught up with him. This cautionary tale shows how even in the age of supersonic flight, a pilot can't escape the physics—or the consequences—of his own firepower.

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