Korean War Battle Stories: The Complete Collection
Book Details
Author(s)Wendell Crowley
ISBN / ASINB00U2YDN2Q
ISBN-13978B00U2YDN20
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
Description
Straight from the frontlines of the 38th Parallel! This action-packed magazine is filled with tales of the Forgotten War - a.k.a the Korean War. Features vivid retellings of Korean War stories in illustration. This Golden Age comic classic is a true saga of courage. The Complete Collection includes 11 full issues! Hours of entertainment and 400 pages long.
This rare publication was made during the conflict and features realistic, gripping illustrations. Outright bizarre wartime propaganda certainly leaked through the publication as the Cold War was in full swing. Includes thousands of fully illustrated panels. 400 drawn pages in all. The original comics are lovingly and carefully scanned by collectors, and respectfully converted to digital format by yours truly. A total of 11 issues in 1 eBook - a lasting value! This forgotten publication is ripe with retro entertainment from the time of the nuclear family.
My grandfather served in the Korean War, and I wish he had been around longer to tell his story... At least we have these fine magazines to remember the valiant troops of the Korean War. If you like war history and these comic strips also check out "Monty Hall of the U.S. Marines" eBook here in Amazon!
A partial list of stories featured in this collection (too many to fit in this description!):
Battle Stories Issue #1:
What are they fighting for in Korea? There are plenty of high-blown answers to that one, but the battle-weary, mud grimed U.N. Soldier who's doing the fighting, who lives from minute to minute, day to day, on the thundering front of the war, has summed it all up in one eloquent statement: He'll tell you he's fighting for only one thing! He's fighting for "The Winning of Tomorrow."
To the other fly happy jet pilots of the eleventh squadron, the diesel Caterpillar tractor was just another earth-bound hunk of unlovely iron, but in the hands of Kelly, the kid who loved it, it was a "Killer Cat!"
Captain Rowe hated dogs in general and he hated the great Dane in particular… But you can't choose your company, human or inhuman, near the 38th Parallel! The captain found that out on one bloody mission that earned… "A Pork Chop for Hamlet."
Issue #2:
You are John Drummond of the Army of the United States, and you know that when this barrage is over there will be nothing to fear in this jungle. You aren't counting on running into... "A Bird of Prey!"
What's it take to make a hero? What is it that sets him apart from other men? Maybe you can tell! Look these six men over carefully as they disembark in Inchon, Korea! All but one of them are green, untried soldiers! Yet they will soon be in the thick of the fighting north of the 38th parallel, and one of them will win his nation's highest award - the Congressional Medal of Honor! One of them has on him "The Mark of a Hero!"
Issue #3:
Certain pages in the book of our military history are brilliantly illuminated by the names of guerrilla campaigners - 'Swamp Fox' Marion, Roger's Rangers, Carlson's Raiders, Moseby, Merrill's Marauders - men whose daring, mobility and surprise compensated for their lack of numbers! Korea adds another bright page to the book. The name: Capt. Michael J. 'Mad Mike' Desmond, and "Desmond's Desperados!"
"WANTED: One MIG-15"
Screaming through Korean skies, Russian built MIG-15 jet fighters were unleashed against our planes, another surprise weapon from the Soviet arsenal of autocracy! Experts will tell you that the MIG-15 is good! It is fast! It is tough! The compactness Sunday punch when flown by competent pilot. What were the secrets behind the brilliant performance of the elusive Red plane? It was vital to the U.N. cause that we obtain an undamaged MIG-15, one that can be flown and tested by her pilots, and study buyer engineers so that with the knowledge learned we can counter its menace!
Introducing: The MIG-15
Made in the USSR
SPECIFICATIONS: Unknown
PERFORMANCE: Excellent
All these stories and so much mo
This rare publication was made during the conflict and features realistic, gripping illustrations. Outright bizarre wartime propaganda certainly leaked through the publication as the Cold War was in full swing. Includes thousands of fully illustrated panels. 400 drawn pages in all. The original comics are lovingly and carefully scanned by collectors, and respectfully converted to digital format by yours truly. A total of 11 issues in 1 eBook - a lasting value! This forgotten publication is ripe with retro entertainment from the time of the nuclear family.
My grandfather served in the Korean War, and I wish he had been around longer to tell his story... At least we have these fine magazines to remember the valiant troops of the Korean War. If you like war history and these comic strips also check out "Monty Hall of the U.S. Marines" eBook here in Amazon!
A partial list of stories featured in this collection (too many to fit in this description!):
Battle Stories Issue #1:
What are they fighting for in Korea? There are plenty of high-blown answers to that one, but the battle-weary, mud grimed U.N. Soldier who's doing the fighting, who lives from minute to minute, day to day, on the thundering front of the war, has summed it all up in one eloquent statement: He'll tell you he's fighting for only one thing! He's fighting for "The Winning of Tomorrow."
To the other fly happy jet pilots of the eleventh squadron, the diesel Caterpillar tractor was just another earth-bound hunk of unlovely iron, but in the hands of Kelly, the kid who loved it, it was a "Killer Cat!"
Captain Rowe hated dogs in general and he hated the great Dane in particular… But you can't choose your company, human or inhuman, near the 38th Parallel! The captain found that out on one bloody mission that earned… "A Pork Chop for Hamlet."
Issue #2:
You are John Drummond of the Army of the United States, and you know that when this barrage is over there will be nothing to fear in this jungle. You aren't counting on running into... "A Bird of Prey!"
What's it take to make a hero? What is it that sets him apart from other men? Maybe you can tell! Look these six men over carefully as they disembark in Inchon, Korea! All but one of them are green, untried soldiers! Yet they will soon be in the thick of the fighting north of the 38th parallel, and one of them will win his nation's highest award - the Congressional Medal of Honor! One of them has on him "The Mark of a Hero!"
Issue #3:
Certain pages in the book of our military history are brilliantly illuminated by the names of guerrilla campaigners - 'Swamp Fox' Marion, Roger's Rangers, Carlson's Raiders, Moseby, Merrill's Marauders - men whose daring, mobility and surprise compensated for their lack of numbers! Korea adds another bright page to the book. The name: Capt. Michael J. 'Mad Mike' Desmond, and "Desmond's Desperados!"
"WANTED: One MIG-15"
Screaming through Korean skies, Russian built MIG-15 jet fighters were unleashed against our planes, another surprise weapon from the Soviet arsenal of autocracy! Experts will tell you that the MIG-15 is good! It is fast! It is tough! The compactness Sunday punch when flown by competent pilot. What were the secrets behind the brilliant performance of the elusive Red plane? It was vital to the U.N. cause that we obtain an undamaged MIG-15, one that can be flown and tested by her pilots, and study buyer engineers so that with the knowledge learned we can counter its menace!
Introducing: The MIG-15
Made in the USSR
SPECIFICATIONS: Unknown
PERFORMANCE: Excellent
All these stories and so much mo
