Captain America life at war.

Chapter 2

Horrified by newsreel footage of Nazis ransacking Europe, and atrocities in Asia that the Empire of Japan committed in China and Korea, I tried to enlist in the Army but was rejected as 4-F because of my frailty and sickness. Overhearing my earnest plea to fight for my country, General Chester Phillips of the US Army offered me the opportunity to take part in a top-secret performance-enhancing experiment called Operation Rebirth.

I accepted and was taken to a secret laboratory in Washington, D.C. It was here where I met Professor Abraham Erskine, the brains and brawn behind the Super-Soldier Serum. After weeks of tests, I was at last administered the Super-Soldier Serum. Given part of the compound intravenously (through my veins)and another part orally, I was then bombarded by vita-rays, a special combination of exotic (in 1941) wavelengths of radiation designed to accelerate and stabilize the serum's effect on my body. I emerged from the vita-ray chamber with a perfect human body. A Nazi spy, who observed the experiment, murdered Dr. Erskine mere minutes after its conclusion. Dr. Erskine died without fully committing the Super-Soldier formula to paper, leaving me the sole beneficiary of his genius.