A bit of a stretch that a wanted Nazi war criminal would hang out around the mountain where he made his runs but, all in all, a decent read. The police come up the mountain to help Ed and explain that Hans was actually a Nazi war criminal who believed Ed was on his trail. When he comes to, his companion is dead and he realizes this was the same man who attempted to kill him months before. As Ed skis down the slope, his memories come back to him after a bullet puts him in the snow once again. Peter: After the war, Ed, an Allied ski trooper, feels compelled to revisit the mountain in Germany where he was ambushed and "lost time." He meets up with a friendly German named Hans who offers to head up the mountain with him. Jack: One question: if the Japanese planes attack the fort every day at three o'clock, why isn't there any real defense? Why is Curtis left there along with Charlie the plane? Just askin'. If I was Curtis' CO, I'd worry about how much the kid talks to his airplane but then this was a war populated by haunted tanks, so who knows? Despite the "Wash-Out" mantra repeated approximately 110 times, I thought this one was a decent little read. When the call comes, Charlie and Curtis perform admirably and their fellow pilots and forts salute them. When Curtis happens upon Charlie, an old rust bucket too fragile for battle, he finds his "Wings for a Wash-Out." Every day at three, Zeroes home in on the base while the Aces are out hunting so Curtis has to get Charlie into tip-top shape in case he's called upon to defend their home ground. Peter: Rookie pilot Curtis isn't good enough for combat so his CO grounds him. Too bad it does not include the exciting scene on the gorgeous cover! The structure of this story is very good. The turtle returns near the end and helps our heroes find a fourth tank. The Haunted Tank then hunts down and destroys each of the three tanks. He starts with the cute episode featuring the turtle, then establishes that there are three Nazi tanks firing at the Jeb Stuart. Kanigher knows how to tell a story with a beginning, a middle, and an end, something that we probably take for granted. Jack: I thought this was a fun story with dynamite art. Yeah, it's just a comic book story but how on earth, in this wide open space, does the Jeb Stuart keep crossing paths with little Tommy Turtle? Russ Heath's art is still miles above that of Grandenetti and Abel but he's obviously better served by bigger panels and lots of airplanes! I'd question why these guys, when surrounded by the enemy and trying to catch some rest in a hideaway, would shoot at the hawk that carried their little friend off and give themselves away. This could be just another tank squad for all the difference the ghost makes. Not only do I not see the reasoning behind "The Tank and the Turtle," I'm also beginning to wonder why Kanigher created The Haunted Tank in the first place. Peter: The men of the Jeb Stuart make friends with a turtle and the friendship proves advantageous later on when the Haunted Tank comes under enemy fire.
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