I probably haven't read anywhere near as many as were published, but I still feel like I've read a metric ton of DC's army guys vs. dinosaurs comics. (I just had to check my shelf for Showcase Presents: The War That Time Forgot, but didn't see it. Swore I had it somewhere, that would've accounted for a bunch of them...) And I want to say in most, if not all of them, even .50 cal machine gun fire bounces off dinosaurs like water off a duck's back. Like today's book! From 1980, Weird War Tales #94, featuring "The Eye of Hell!" Written by Robert Kanigher, art by Franc Reyes. (And a nice Joe Kubert cover!)
A fairly standard story for the title leads off: in 1943, a US tank crew on a South Pacific island faces off against a tyrannosaurus rex to save a native girl from being sacrificed. And the "50 cal. slugs are bouncin' off its hide like confetti at a Flatbush Ave. parade!" I'm not sure that those bullets wouldn't have torn up the t-rex; but it also picks up the tank for later eatin', so...The soldiers set the tank to blow, and make a run for it; the tank explodes before the dinosaur can throw it at them, and a lava flow opens up for good measure. About as traditional as a Christmas tree!
Also this issue: "Through the Past...Darkly!" A Twilight Zone-style tale from J.M. DeMatteis and Gerald Forton. Businessman Henry Geller, is accused of being Nazi war criminal Heinrich Geisen, by a concentration camp survivor. That night, Geller goes to bed, only to wake up in a WWII camp himself! Panicked, he attempts to flee, but instead dragged to "the showers..."
This isn't the deepest story, but it manages two twists on the last page, so that's something.
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