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G.I. Combat #21 (1955)
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In the frozen wilderness of Greenland, a U.S. infantry unit conducting maneuvers stumbles upon a hidden enemy base, only to realize their supposed allies are actually Communist infiltrators planning a surprise attack. With their radios destroyed and cut off from reinforcements, the outnumbered soldiers must rely on quick thinking and guerrilla tactics to uncover the enemy’s true intentions.
In the midst of a brutal war, raw Marine recruit Pat Riley becomes an unlikely legend after surviving a series of near-fatal attacks, baffling his comrades with his uncanny ability to escape death—first from a mortar strike, then from a tank assault, each time emerging unscathed. As the battle rages on, his fellow Marines begin to believe Riley is invincible, not just due to luck, but because of something deeper—something that may be more than chance.
In the jungles of the South Pacific, Captain Pappy Larson and his stranded platoon find themselves trapped on a mountain ridge, their only cover shaped by shell craters that eerily resemble a baseball diamond. With enemy forces closing in and no way to retreat, Larson rallies his men to use the battlefield as a makeshift field, turning their desperate survival into a high-stakes game of war-torn baseball.
In "One Man Army," a regimental messenger with a past as a race car driver can't resist the thrill of speed, even in the midst of war. His reckless instincts soon push him from the relative safety of his dispatch duties into the heart of the front lines, where old habits might be his greatest asset—or his undoing.