Battle Stories #9

A patrol squad on dangerous assignment must eliminate enemy gun positions while dealing with internal conflict—Private Malkin resents Sergeant Deeble's harsh leadership and suspects the sergeant is deliberately assigning him to deadly tasks out of rivalry over a girl back home. When the patrol successfully destroys a red gun station, Malkin confronts Deeble, but discovers the sergeant has also been protecting him all along and that Malkin's brother was killed by the enemy, not by Deeble's orders. Jock MacNeil then steps in to fight Deeble, but learns from Bill that the sergeant's ruthlessness has been keeping the men alive, ending the conflict with newfound mutual respect among the soldiers.