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G.I. Combat #38 (1956)
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Private Longhorse leads a desperate mission to disable a German tank threatening his unit, using the terrain and a hidden anti-tank trap to turn the tide of a brutal frontline assault. With grit and quick thinking, he maneuvers through the chaos of war, facing the relentless advance of enemy armor and the ever-present danger of the battlefield.
In the rugged hills south of the Mosul Oil Fields, Major Garrett and his G.I. unit face a relentless guerrilla campaign by Red Iraqi saboteurs backed by Soviet supplies. When a sudden attack draws their forces into a trap, the major realizes the enemy is luring them away from the pipeline—forcing a desperate, clever countermove to outwit the unseen enemy.
In the tense days of early September, Captain Jim Halleck leads a secret military exercise in West Germany, unaware that a bizarre and dangerous ruse is unfolding around him. When a convoy of heavily guarded vehicles arrives at his base, followed by a sudden and alarming invasion from both West and East German forces—only to reveal a shocking deception—Halleck must quickly adapt as his unit finds itself trapped between two enemy fronts, one of which is actually a disguised East German operation.
Private Charlie Longhorse, a Cheyenne soldier and the clumsiest member of Dog Company, struggles to prove himself amid the constant teasing of Sergeant Keller. When ordered to lead a nighttime mission to disable enemy mortars on Nameless Ridge, Charlie sheds his noisy G.I. boots for his moccasins and slips silently into the dark—transforming from bumbling replacement to a stealthy, deadly force in the shadows.