WORLD WAR III "Devils of the Deep"

Ten-Hut!

World War III spares no place on Earth...land, air, or sea!

Nor does it spare the nerves of the men who fight the Final War...

Submarines are referred to as "snorkels" in this series because they had to raise the air-exchange device at least once a day while submerged to refresh the air supply!
Real-life sailors called the actual device a "snort" and a submarine itself was referred to as a "boat", not a "snorkel".

This story from World War III #2 (1953) was written by Robert Turner, with art by Lou Cameron.

Until tomorrow, when we return to tales from Atomic War...

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ATOMIC WAR! "Operation Satellite"

Ten-Hut!

We return to a potential near future (the 1960s as seen in 1952)...

...as we have a look at a forerunner to the Star Wars Defense system in this story from Atomic War! #4 (1952)

While the scripter is unknown, the art is by Lou Cameron.
Tomorrow, we switch to World War III, the other Ace Comics future-war series which was set in a seperate universe despite the similar concept!

Until Tomorrow...

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WORLD WAR III "Operation Comeback"

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World War III has begun, and the US will strike back!

Damn Commies!

They'll stop at nothing!

(or so we thought in 1952)

But the US is hardly doing "nothing"...

The second story from World War III #1 (1952) shows other differences in this book's version of 1960s "future history" compared to it's companion title Atomic War!

The missile technology shown seems directly derived from German WWII V-1s and V-2s, perhaps by German scientists we kept out of Soviet hands at the end of the war.

Much is made of defense budget cuts in WWIII, while in Atomic War! we were caught off-guard, but once we began counter-attacking, we were shown to be pretty well-equipped with (then) state of the art lethal tech!

Art by Lou Cameron, writer unknown.

Until next time...

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