Hey everyone, I know this isn't important, but have any of you read the "Sergeant Fury and his Howling Commandos" before. If you haven't, here is a link to a site with them on it. http://commandos.strategyplanet.gamespy.com/
ahhh those were the days I loved it when my eagle started to include stories out of the battle comic like Charleys War and Johnny Red FNG
Yup. I read them all when a regular comic was 12 cents and the "Giant issues" were a quarter. (25 cents.) Still have a box-full of them somewheres. Great comics and great artists. Lt Jeb Stuart and the Haunted Tank. The ghost of confederate general Jeb Stuart watches over an M3 Stuart light tank and it's crew. It's 37mm main gun is able to "tip the hat" of German Tiger tanks with regularity. Sgt Rock. (Did you know he had a brother who was a sergeant in the Pacific?) Chief Flying Cloud. An American Indian ace who flew P-51 Mustangs. The "Great Spirit" watched over him in battle. ... and the list goes on. Tim
Here's a couple (British & American for balance) - note that UK comics used to boost sales by giving "free gifts" with the first few issues ... PS. Your handle's in there somewhere.
The war comics were pretty cool, but they often had inaccuracies that defied belief. I once read an issue of "The Haunted Tank" which had two German tanks destroyed by .50 MGs! Then there was the time Sgt. Rock shot down an He 111 bomber with a rifle grenade (I lost count of how many he nailed with his Thompson)! And the list goes on... :roll:
Yeah or the Sgt. Fury comics where Private Dum Dum is parachuting out of a plane and is attacked by Nazi fighters. He throws a grenade at one of the FW190s, and blows it out of the sky. :lol:
Oh, I can top that one. IIRC, the Haunted Tank once shot down a German fighter using its main gun! All we need now is to have Davy Crockett do the same thing with Ol' Betsy. Or maybe he could just grin it down! :lol:
Corp: This particular M3 Stuart was watched over by Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart. (Yeah, unfair advantage I know.) That alone gave it the ability to "tip the hat" of Tiger Is with regularity that bordered on the routine. Yes, their little 37mm main-gun was most CERTAINLY po-ssessed. I happen to have a few copies of the Haunted Tank comics in view right now. The one I'm looking at shows the Haunted Tank climbing a sand-dune and smashing into a smoking German Focke-Wolf while Lt Stuart blazes away with a Thompson while falling off the back of the tank. (November- No.11 costing all of 12 cents.) Inside the story artwork actually depicts an Me109... The cover-banner reads: SPECIAL! The top-secret sensation we can no longer keep hidden from you! Even more closely guarded than the secret of the ATOM BOMB! "The Battle Origin of the Haunted Tank! Classic stuff guys... and all true of course. :roll: I've got more. Tim
Lt. Larry Rock was Sgt. Rocks brother. He took a piece of shrapnel from an exploding Zero on Corregidor in the head and it was deemed inoperable. He had a nice scar on his right temple. He escaped Corregidor with his buddy Lennie--just swam away--and rejoined a marine division for the first assault against the enemy. (I'm assuming Guadalcanal.) He had this "ticking timebomb" in his head and he saw red when his blood was up, guns were firing, or artillery explosions were hitting. He would go berserk and fight like the dickens. The Japanese referred to him as a "Devil-dog." By the way, Sgt Rock of Easy Company? ...his first name was Frank. Tim
That's a coincidence - there was a character called D-Day Dawson in Battle Picture Weekly (pictured above) - a British Tommy who had an inoperable piece of shrapnel lodged near to his heart which was likewise a timebomb - he kept on commiting acts of outrageous bravery because he knew he was dying too - noone else knew so they were all well impressed or thought he was bonkers. I wonder which one came first - DDD was March 1975. PS. The Britsh comics were a bit more gritty - DDD did actually die in the end. :cry:
i like when rock uses his gunstalk to bat enemy grenades high over center feild , whack , a home run , also he must have shot down my german planes with his tommygun than all allied fighter aces combined ... remember rat patrol on tv where they drove arround on jeeps with .50s and shot rommels tigers to peices ?
