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The Fighting Yank #10
The Fighting Yank #10 This issue contains two stories. "Paratrooper," by Irwin Brower, follows Sergeant Marty Gaines and a young French boy named Pierre who work together behind German lines in Northern France; after Pierre creates homemade colored pencils to hide intelligence about German gun placements, the two outwit German soldiers and successfully deliver the drawings to American headquarters. "Nester's Son," a western story by Buck Barton, depicts Matt Clark and his settlers defending their cabin against raiders; when Andy Clark suggests getting help from the nesters (a group of rival settlers), Clark initially refuses but eventually accepts, and together they defeat Slash Wilson's outfit, leading to peace in the valley.