Our Fighting Forces

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Our Fighting Forces is a DC Comics war-anthology comic book series that ran for 181 issues from 1954-1981. Features published in it include "Gunner and Sarge" two "Mud-Marines" and their white German Shepherd dog Pooch on a small island in the Pacific who first appeared in issue #45 May 1959 until issue #94 in August 1965; "The Fighting Devil-Dog Lt Larry Rock" a Marine wounded at Corregidor by shrapnel in his head that literally makes him see red on a Pacific Island from issue #95 until #98; "Capt. Phil Hunter" a Green Beret in the Vietnam War searching for his twin brother Nick, a pilot shot down by the Viet Cong from issue #99 until #105; from #106 April 1967 "Hunter's Hellcats" Capt. Hunter's father Ben in WWII who formed a unit of military prisoners; a comic copy of The Dirty Dozen until #122; and "The Losers" The Losers were DC Comics war heroes who had lost their own magazines: Capt. Storm of the Navy, Johnny Cloud of the Army Air Forces, and Gunner & Sarge of the Marines.

Writer-editor Robert Kanigher and writer-artist Jack Kirby were among the comics creators whose work appeared in the title. Others include artists Jack Abel, Ross Andru, Ken Barr, Gene Colan, Ed Davis, Mort Drucker, Mike Esposito, George Evans, Jerry Grandenetti, Russ Heath, Bruce Jones, Joe Kubert, Irv Novick, John Severin, Tom Sutton, Frank Thorne, and Wally Wood, some of whom would also script.