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''Our Fighting Forces'' began with an October&ndash;November 1954 [[cover date]].<ref name="GCD">{{gcdb series|id= 1025|title= Our Fighting Forces}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1= Overstreet|first1= Robert M.|title= [[Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide]]|edition= 49th|publisher= [[Gemstone Publishing]]|date= 2019|location= Timonium, Maryland|pages= 918|isbn= 978-1603602334}}</ref> Writer-editor [[Robert Kanigher]]'s work appeared in most issues of the title. Artist [[Alex Toth]] worked with writer/editor [[Archie Goodwin (comics)|Archie Goodwin]] on the story "Burma Sky" in ''Our Fighting Forces'' #146 (Dec. 1973–Jan. 1974) and Goodwin praised Toth's art in a 1998 interview: "To me, having Alex Toth do any kind of airplane story, it's a joy for me. If I see a chance to do something like that, I will. He did a really fabulous job on it".<ref>{{cite journal|last= Cooke|first= Jon B.|title= Archie's Comics - Archie Goodwin talks about DC in his last interview|journal= [[Comic Book Artist]]|issue= #1|publisher= [[TwoMorrows Publishing]]|date= Spring 1998|location= Raleigh, North Carolina|url= http://twomorrows.com/comicbookartist/articles/01goodwin.html|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120307162234/http://twomorrows.com/comicbookartist/articles/01goodwin.html|archive-date= March 7, 2012|url-status= live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> "Burma Sky" was reprinted in black-and-white decades later in ''Genius Illustrated: The Life and Work of Alex Toth''.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Arndt|first=Richard J.|title="Nice" Is the Word: A Few Words on Archie Goodwin|journal=[[Back Issue!]]|issue=#103 |page=10|publisher=[[TwoMorrows Publishing]]|date=April 2018 |location=Raleigh, North Carolina}}</ref> [[Jack Kirby]] wrote and drew issues #151 to 162 featuring [[The Losers (comics)|The Losers]].<ref name="GCD" /><ref>{{cite book|last=McAvennie|first= Michael|last2=Dolan|first2=Hannah, ed.|chapter= 1970s|title = DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle|publisher=[[Dorling Kindersley]]|year=2010|location= London, United Kingdom|isbn= 978-0-7566-6742-9|page= 161|quote= Jack Kirby also took on a group of established DC characters that had nothing to lose. The result was a year-long run of ''Our Fighting Forces'' tales that were action-packed, personal, and among the most beloved of World War II comics ever produced.}}</ref> Other contributors include artists [[Jack Abel]], [[Ross Andru]], [[Ken Barr]], [[Gene Colan]], Ed Davis, [[Mort Drucker]], [[Mike Esposito (comics)|Mike Esposito]], [[Ric Estrada]], [[George Evans (comics)|George Evans]], [[Jerry Grandenetti]], [[Russ Heath]], [[Bruce Jones (comics)|Bruce Jones]], [[Joe Kubert]], [[Irv Novick]], [[John Severin]], [[Tom Sutton]], [[Frank Thorne]], and [[Wally Wood]], some of whom would also script. The series was cancelled as part of the [[DC Implosion]] with issue #181 (September–October 1978).<ref name="GCD" />

A ''Our Fighting Forces'' [[one-shot (comics)|one-shot]] was published in November 2010.<ref>{{Gcdb issue|id= 779009|title= ''Our Fighting Forces'' one-shot}}</ref>