This issue's story is clearly better than most of the stuff in the preceding few issues. The whole idea of an integrated Commando unit was/is of course anti-racist, but here things are taken a bit further as the Howlers are lead to believe that Dino is a traitor. He's Italian-American, see... Of course, it's all a plot by Fury, but -- again! -- he declines to mention this to anyone else, which proves to be almost lethal for that Manelli guy. Didn't Nick learn anything from that little incident in Sgt. Fury #7???

Anyways, the Howlers are sent to a mission which suits Commandoes perfectly, i.e. to destroy a V-1 launching pad. Thereafter action and witty (and not-so-witty) banter flow pretty effortlessly. There's less emphasis on near superheroic feats, and more on, you know, war.

Art is pretty lacklustre. There's nothing really bad about it, but almost all panels seem to be close-ups of some kind, which creates almost claustrophic feeling. The only panel where there's some feeling of space is the opening splash in a English pub.

War history buff picks a nit: In most panels V-1 looks very little like itself, although panel 4 on page 3 shows the real thing, more or less. And Stan, everyone knows this aeroplane is Junkers Ju-87 aka Stuka. Not Messerschmitt!

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