Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 5 WAR HEROES: ISSUE #1 – JULY, 1942 7 GENERAL DOUGLAS MacARTHUR, SUPREME COMMANDER 9 LIEUTENANT WILLIAM L. KABLER: THE HERO OF THE HERON 19 THE MEDAL OF HIGHEST HONOR 22 MEN OF HONOR: 25 LIEUT EDWARD M. O’HARE 25 SERGEANT LEROY C. ANDERSON 25 REAR ADMIRAL ISAAC C. KIDD 25 LIEUT. BOYD D. WAGNER 26 MAJOR THOMAS J. H. TRAPNELL 26 LEONARD WAGONER, MACHINIST MATE 26 SECOND LIEUT. GEORGE WELCH 27 SECOND LIEUT. KENNETH TAYLOR 27 CAPTAIN JESUS VILLAMOR 27 HEROES OF WAKE ISLAND 28 HUMAN TORCHES: The True Exploit of Sgt. Thomas B. Miller, RCAF 33 THE ATTACK ON THE MARSHALL AND GILBERT ISLANDS 40 MOSQUITO BOAT HEROES 42 LIEUT. JOHN BULKELY 42 ENSIGN GEORGE COX 46 COLIN KELLY: First U.S. Hero in the Second World War 48 VICTORY AT MIDWAY ISLAND 53 LIEUT. ALEXANDER R. NININGER (M.O.H.) INTO THE JAWS OF DEATH 57 CAPTAIN ARTHUR W. WERMUTH: AMERICA’S ONE-MAN ATTACK 60 SERGRANT LESLIE SMITTEN: R.C.A.F HERO 65 U.S. ARMY INSIGNIA and U.S NAVY INSIGNIA 73 DECORATIONS 74 WAR HEROES: ISSUE #2 – OCTOBER-DECEMBER, 1942 75 SECOND-LIEUT ANNAND WINS V.C IN BELGIUM 76 THE FLYING TIGERS 77 ADRIFT ON A RAFT 83 THROUGH FIRE AND WATER: U.S.S. MARBLEHEAD – The Ship That Would Not Sink! 87 LIEUT. GEN. JOSEPH W. STILWELL 99 THE FIRST BOMBING OF JAPAN 102 COMMANDO RAID 108 HEROES OF THE DEPTHS 114 CORREGIDOR: ‘The Gibraltar of the Pacific’ Monument to Valor 116 ‘CATALINA’ FOILS THE WAVES 125 MIHAILOVICH THE UNCONQUERED 128 THE FIRE-EATERS OF THE U.S.S. ‘PIGEON’ 132 HOTS OFF TO B-17 CAPTAIN HEWITT T. WHELESS! 134 MANTLE and GRISTOCK: REAL HEROES 141 FLIGHT-LIEUT. RODERICK LEOROYD BOMBING FROM 150 FT. 142 WAR HEROES: ISSUE #3 – JANUARY-MARCH, 1943 143 AMERICAN BOMBERS ‘INVADE’ HITLER’S EUROPE 145 RUSSIA’S SHARP SHOOTING HEROINE ‘SAVES LIVES’ BY KILLING 309 NAZIS 151 UNITED STATES MARINES ‘MOP UP’ AT MAKIN 153 LT. JOHN J. POWERS: Hero of the Battle of the Coral Sea 159 THE FLYING SHAMROCK 163 THE UNITED STATES RANGERS LIVE AGAIN 166 RANGER VETS 167 SILVER STAR AWARDED TO CREW OF FLYING FORTRESS 168 LIEUT. COMMANDER FRED B. WARDER: U.S. Submarine Hero 170 ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART: America’s Oldest Military Decoration for Valor 176 U.S. RANGERS Get Their Baptism of Fire at DIEPPE 178 MODERN REDSKINS 192 U.S. MARINES WREST THE SOLOMANS FROM THE JAPS: Our First Land Offensive of the Second World War 193 COXSWAIN CLAUDE BECKER: Another U.S.S. MARBLEHEAD Hero 205 U.S. FLIER’S 20 DAY BATTLE FOR SURVIVAL 207 SALUTE TO HEROES OF STALINGRAD 210 WAR HEROES: ISSUE #4 – APRIL-JUNE, 1943 211 DOGS OF WAR 212 OUR GENERAL EISENHOWER 213 LIEUT. GEN. MARK W. CLARK 215 CAPTAIN EDDIE FLIES AGAIN 223 SMITTY HOLDS THE FORD 232 The GREMLINS 242 HONORABLE KNOCKOUT – NAVY STYLE 248 NORTH AFRICAN SURPRISE PARTY 254 DAVY JONES VESTIBULE 260 GENERAL HENRI GIRAUD: Hero and Leader of the French 264 VIKING OF THE SKIES 269 WAR BIRDS OVER GREENLAND 272 PARACHUTES 277 BUY WAR BONDS 278 CATALOG 279