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G.I. Combat #27 (1955)
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In the final days before a truce deadline, Colonel Bart Marston leads a U.S. tank team through war-torn Indochina to evacuate critical American-supplied weapons from the besieged French fortress of Kaphu. As they push toward safety, the convoy is ambushed by a well-organized Communist force, and after a brutal defense, the Americans face a desperate choice—either make a fuel-scarce run through enemy territory or risk being trapped with no way out.
In the South Pacific, a sudden swarm of red helicopters launches a surprise attack on a U.S. artillery outpost on Guam, catching the G.I.s off guard as their radar fails to detect the incoming raid. With ammunition running low and the enemy closing in, the desperate soldiers rally around a last-ditch plan to use dynamite from a maintenance shed to blow apart the advancing helicopters. As the dust settles, the surviving G.I.s realize the raid was a failed attempt to eliminate a target that never even arrived.
Trapped Behind Commie Lines" follows a group of G.I.'s who crash-land in what they believe is enemy territory after being blown off course by a storm over Western Germany. Mistaking a heavily camouflaged U.S. military installation in West Germany for a Communist camp, they launch a desperate attack—only to be captured and confronted by a commander who claims they’ve invaded Czechoslovakia. Now stranded and facing a dangerous deception, the men must find a way to expose the truth before their mistaken assault sparks a real war.
In the freezing grip of Attu Island, a mock invasion turns deadly when untested G.I.'s stumble upon a real Communist force entrenched in a hidden supply base. With time running out and their comrades pinned down, a small group of soldiers launches a desperate snowmobile assault to destroy the depot, knowing it may cost them their lives.