Combat Kelly #8 (1952)

On patrol duty in the forests of North Korea, Combat Kelly and Cookie Novak come across a cabin with a group of Chinese soldiers. They burst in with guns blazing, chopping down a number of the enemy troops and taking a few prisoner for questioning. But they soon find that none of them are willing to talk. Unable to speak Chinese, the two Americans take the captured Chinese soldiers back to base to be interrogated by their translator. The translator learns that Yalu River Rosie is located in the Imjin region. Aching to get revenge against her, Combat is about to rush off when Major Thorn orders them to stay, threatening to toss them in the stock aide if they run off again. Thorn then assigns the pair to guard duty on a nearby bridge. Noticing that his friend has become depressed, Cookie meets with Major Thorn and explains their previous encounter with Yalu River Rosie. Thorn decides to speak with Combat, and when he offers both Kelly and Cookie some leave, Combat decides to use it to hunt down Yalu River Rosie for the five days they have off instead instead. Searching through the jungle for days, Combat and Cookie catch Yalu River Rosie literally with her pants down when they catch her swimming in a nearby river. She is taken prisoner but she demands that they turn away while she gets dressed. Instead of getting dressed she jumps back into the river to escape. When Combat and Cookie try to follow after her they stumble into some Chinese soldiers who take them prisoner. Combat and Cookie are then taken to where the Chinese soldiers have constructed rafts to blow up the bridge near their base and Rosie informs them that she intends to tie them to the rafts to be blown up as well. While nobody is looking, Combat Kelly tosses some live rounds into a nearby fire and when they start going off he pretends like reinforcements have come to rescue them. Combat then uses a stick of dynamite to blow up the Chinese soldiers. When Rosie tries to fire the gun that she took off Combat when he was captured, she is horrified to find that it is not loaded, as Combat removed the bullets before she tried to escape. They then take Rosie back to camp just as their leave is about to expire. Major Thorn then assigns them to patrol duty. The two soldiers grudgingly tromp out in the rain, Cookie lamenting that they spent their entire leave out on patrol only to be put on more patrol duty.