Combat Casey #21
Hong Ssu -- Red Death!
Combat Casey and Penny Pennington are part of the 2nd Infantry Divison in Korea assisting in clearing out Chinese soldiers occupying in Pudong. While struggling with an enemy soldier, Penny falls off a roof and appears to be injured. In a panic Combat rushes to get a medic but finds that Penny is okay, and that the "blood" on him was really the juice from radishes that he landed on when he fell.
Learning that the remaining enemy soldiers have holed up in nearby school Captain Stone is about to order his troops to bomb the building when one of the locals informs him that they have taken all the children in the village hostage inside, causing a stalemate. While Captain Stone prays for a solution to the problem that night, Penny comes up with an idea of his own. Taking Combat, the pair gather up a bunch of radishes and sneak into the school. There they smear radish juice on all the captive children and then sneak back out again. The next morning when the Chinese soldiers wake up they believe the red skinned prisoners are suffering from the Red Death and flee in a panic and into the hands of American soldiers. With the enemy captured, Combat and Penny reveal how they tricked the Chinese into surrendering.
Recurring Characters
Combat Casey
Penny Pennington
Captain Stone
Hello, U.S.A.
Continued from last issue....
Penny Pennington, Sargent Pulaski and Lucy are anticipating their arrival in San Francisco when suddenly a fire breaks out on the ship. While the Navy fire fighters put out the blaze, Lucy's father tells the trio that the fire was an act of sabotage leading them all to believe that a communist agent must have stowed away aboard the ship.
That night, Penny and Lucy act as lookouts for Sargent Pulaski. When they spot a Chinese soldier slipping out of the life boats and attempting to detonate another bundle of explosives, Pulaski beats him senseless and the trio turn him over the commanding officers. However when they are rocked by another explosion just as they are approaching San Francisco. When the Colonel mobilizes Penny and Pulaski to search for the second stow-away they find him on a smoke stack holding Lucy hostage. Penny goes down into the boiler room and orders them to release as much smoke from the stack as possible.
Penny then confronts the 2nd Chinese soldier who lights his explosives but is frightened when the ships whistle goes off signaling their approach into San Francisco Bay, causing him to fall over board and is killed by his own explosives. Penny, Lucy and Pulaski are all happy to have finally returned home to the United States.
Recurring Characters
Combat Casey
Penny Pennington
Sargent Pulaski
Go Get the Enemy!
March 25, 1943, Combat and Penny are part of the US 4th Division in Africa and are on a mission to clear the way for General George Patton's 1st US Tank division. Clashing with Nazi forces who toss Teller mines at them. Combat orders his troops to fire at the mines, blasting fox holes for them to seek cover in and fight off the Nazis who retreat. Combat, Penny and the troops climb to the top of the mountain to find that Nazis that were stationed there fleeing to the next ridge. In order to prevent them from making it there, they use the Teller mines left being in the same way, but far more successfully than their attackers.
Going to the next ridge they find it also abandoned, with the Nazis having sabotaged the vehicles there. As Captain Stone radios to Patton's tanks telling them to move forward a Nazi soldier gets a drop on them and steals the walkie-talkie he is using and flees. However the Nazi is blown up when he walks on a land mine, making Combat and the others realize that the hill is rigged with landmines. With the walkie-talkie destroyed in the blast, they come up with a solution to the problem: To clear a path, Penny and Combat send the disabled Nazi trucks through the mine field blasting a clear path for the tanks that then travel through the region safely. Combat and Penny are later commended for their fast thinking during the crisis.
Recurring Characters
Combat Casey
Penny Pennington
Captain Stone
