Combat Casey #23 — Nick Peron

Sep 7

Sep 7 Combat Casey #23

Combat Casey

Combat Casey and Penny Pennington have smuggled themselves into North Korea on a mission to evacuate a weapons building factory of Korean slave workers so that American bombers can blow them up. In order to do so, they hop aboard a shipping and passenger train heading to the factory, quickly subduing any Chinese soldiers who happen to discover them. When the alarm is raised, Combat and Penny unhitch the train cars that contain soldiers sending it rolling down hill and off a cliff. When the train arrives at the factor the pair quickly slip away and find a hiding place in the factory.

There they are discovered by one of the Korean workers who informs the Americans that after they are finished building rifles they are going to be shipped to another location while the weapons are going to be brought to the front lines. Penny teaches the Korean man how to sabotage the weapons and the pair hide out until its time to evacuate everyone. When it is time to ship the weapons on, Combat and Penny take control of the passenger train and help the Koreans escape. Meanwhile, the weapons that are shipped out to the front lines fall apart whenever a trigger is pulled and the enemy soldiers are easily defeated.

Recurring Characters

Combat Casey
Penny Pennington

Combat Casey

February 1, 1944, Combat Casey and Penny Pennington are a part of the 7th (Hour Glass) Infantry Division that are part of the assault on Kwajaelin Atoll, storming the beaches with their amphibious trucks in order to clear the way for personnel carriers to reach the shore.

Forced back into the jungle, the Japanese soldiers regroup and pushed back in a Banzai charge but Combat, Penny and the other soldiers force them back into the jungle. Combat and the others fight their way through the jungles until they are pinned down by enemy artillery cannons. When their cannons run out of ammo, the Japanese roll down grenades, and when this fails they roll down trucks filled with explosives. Surviving each attack, Penny comes up with a plan to fight fire with fire: Using their amphibious trucks, they load them up with explosives and send them speeding toward the Japanese, blowing up the entire army and forcing them to surrender. Soon Combat and the other soldiers to take the atoll.