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Attack #1
This anthology of true war stories contains two main narratives. "Frogmen to the Rescue" depicts the steel-nerved Navy personnel of an underwater demolition team conducting a U.D.T. rescue mission in the Pacific during World War II, following their efforts to assist survivors of a downed aircraft off Saipan in May 1944. "The Bloody Battle for Hill 80" chronicles a tense Korean War engagement in which high school students inadvertently wander into a combat zone, forcing soldiers to hold their position against a sneak attack while weighing the moral question of taking credit for enemy casualties.