First thing, I have no clue as to why this story is in WEIRD WAR TALES. It's the only Stevens story to appear in the title, and it doesn't really fit in with the theme of the series. Best I can figure is that editor Joe Kubert just found himself with a small hole in what was then primarily a reprint book and just grabbed what was handy. This was also in the middle of one of Glanzman's most prolific periods of doing Stevens stories, with at least one and sometimes two stories a month, so possibly Kubert was having problems scheduling them all.

While it's not "weird", this story is one of the Stevens stories to play with narrative techniques a bit. The story has no dialogue, and all the captions are offset from the panels, instead of directly over the artwork as they usually are. There are also large white spaces between some of the panels. This tends to give the story a feel of a scrap-book or photo album. The captions then tend to feel more like a voice-over.

Glanzman's main theme in this story is one of the many dichotomies of war. In this case, the long periods of waiting before an attack compared with the attack itself. He shows how life goes on during that wait, but how the reality of war and the possibility of an attack at any point always hangs over the men.

He then shows an attack and its aftermath, contrasting success with failure, life with death. And after the battle, what is there to do but wait again...

This is an excellent USS Stevens story, and unfortunately probably one of the harder ones to find since early issues of WEIRD WAR TALES are often inexplicably pricy. Still worth keeping an eye open for.