Combat Kelly #40 — Nick Peron

Aug 28

Aug 28 Combat Kelly #40

Once Upon a Battlefield...

After a long battle, Combat Kelly and Cookie Novak wake up the only survives but with no memory of who they are. However they quickly learn their names by checking each other's dog tags. Confused as to who they are the two press on until they come across an enemy rail station and intuitively recognize them as the enemy. Spotting an on coming supply train the two amnesia struck soldiers release the break on freight car sending it speeding toward the train.

Spotting this, communist troops try to stop a crash by switching the tracks. However the freight car is going too fast and flies off the tracks and it crashes in front of a tunnel, causing the train wreck that they futilely tried to stop.

Combat and Cookie flee the scene and are spotted by communist gorillas who pistol whip them from behind and are left for dead. Later, Combat and Cookie wake up with the memories of their identities restored but with no memory of what they did in their amnesic states.

Remembering their mission to destroy enemy train supplies, Combat and Cookie rush back to the supply depot to find the station in ruins. Unaware that they themselves were responsible, Combat and Cookie head back to base thinking that someone else completed their mission.

Recurring Characters

Combat Kelly
Cookie Novak

Objective: Destroy the Enemy!

March 1945: Baker Company is in Germany clashing with Nazi forces who have succeeded in destroying a bridge preventing the Americans from following after them. However this is a short lived solution since American engineers are coming to repair the bridge with pontoon section and rafts. However the Nazis have anticipated this move and send some of their men across the river where they track down the trucks carrying the engineers and their supplies and destroying the trucks before they can arrive.

With the engineers running behind schedule, Captain Thorne sends Combat and Cookie back to find out what is keeping them up. They arrive among the wreckage and capture the Nazi soldiers and learn of their plot for a counter attack. However the pair come up with a solution: Going back to their camp, Combat and Cookie have the other soldiers in Baker Company empty out oil drums and they use them as mask shift rafts to cross the river and push Nazi forces back. Two months later, Baker Company was involved in the battle of Berlin that saw the death of Hitler the end of the Nazi regime.

Recurring Characters

Combat Kelly
Cookie Novak
Major Thorne

Missing in Action!

Christmas Eve 1951: Cookie Novak and his fellow soldiers are out in the winter weather and fighting communist forces along side his fellow soldier Willie. When they are ambushed by a communist soldier, Cookie manages to to block the blast of a grenade with his helmet. As the two talk during battle Willie talks about how his family celebrated Christmas and put up a Star of Bethlehem and had faith in its guiding light.

Cookie and Willie are then ordered to lead a troop to hunt down the enemy. They spot the communist soldiers by the smoke of a fire and clash with the enemy. However during the course of the battle, Willie goes missing and Cookie and the others are forced to push forward without him. Willie meanwhile wakes up from a blow to the head and is shocked when he sees the Stars of Bethlehem and it guides him back to his troop.

Recurring Characters

Cookie Novak

Front Line Assault!

While on patrol, Combat Kelly and Cookie Novak come across strange carvings with Korean writing on them. Before they can shoot they are stopped by an elder of the local village who tells Combat, Cookie and the other arriving members of Baker Company that the totems are "Devil Posts" which they believe ward off evil and that they prey to the Devil Posts that they will defend them and the American soldiers from the communist invaders.

Later, Combat and Cookie come to the aid of a female villager whose last cow is going to being stolen by communist soldiers. Combat and Cookie come to her aid and stop the enemy soldiers. After another few skirmishes the elders of the town of Husang invite Baker Company to stay in their town, telling the Americans that the Devil Posts will protect them from evil. That night communist forces gather and charge at Husang only to be defeated in the dark by some unseen force much to the surprise of Baker Company. When Combat and the others go to investigate they find the Devil Posts riddled with bullets and the enemy troops were defeated.