1943

1 January, Friday

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Captain Savage and his team missed their rendezvous time, but a PT boat picks them up, captained by John F. Kennedy. 

2 January, Saturday

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Dino is informed that his leg needs a specialist for him to return to active duty, but the specialist Dr. Parker is a POW.  Dino begins to make training films for the government. 

3 January, Sunday

4 January, Monday

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The Howlers parachute into Africa to contact the Desert Hawk and convince him to stop attacking Allied camps. 

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The Howlers are attacked by the Desert Hawk, Dum Dum is captured, and Fury discovers that the Desert Hawk is a woman who explains why she’s attacking the British.   

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Fury tries to explain that the Nazis killed her mother and the British weren’t at fault, but she doesn’t want to listen.  Meanwhile, Dum Dum is brought to Colonel Frick at the Nazi camp, where the first Desert Hawk is being held captive.  The Howlers attack and the Desert Hawk is freed, who agrees to resume attacking the Nazis. 

5 January, Tuesday

6 January, Wednesday

7 January, Thursday

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Captain America & Bucky fight some Nazi spies and fight Master Man, who steals secret plans from Nikola Tesla for an experimental device.  Tesla dies. 

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Captain America & Bucky are told that the stolen plans are for an anti-aircraft device, and that Tesla used to work with Baron Heinrich Zemo.  They decide to look for a woman who was trying to warn Tesla. 

8 January, Friday

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Captain America & Bucky arrive in Spain, go to a bullfight and find Janice Dare a.k.a. Baroness Zemo. 

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The trio makes their way to Germany to stop Zemo from using Tesla’s plans, and to rescue Helmut from Heinrich.  That night they arrive at the Berlin Zoological Gardens where Baron Zemo’s secret laboratory is.  Cap and the Baroness are captured while Bucky finds Helmut.  Bucky brings him to the lab, where Helmut betrays him.  Cap breaks free from imprisonment, fights and defeats Zemo & Master Man, and frees Bucky.  The lab is destroyed, the Baroness dies, and Heinrich & Helmut Zemo escape. 

9 January, Saturday

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The Howlers receive a letter from Dino updating them on his situation after running into Jim Morita, a Japanese American who’s getting a hard time from some bigoted GIs. 

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After reading Dino’s letter, Fury gets Capt, Sawyer’s permission to go to the Baltic and rescue a doctor who may be able to repair Dino’s leg.  That night they parachute in and steal into the prison camp holding the doctor, but they’re accompanied by Morita who felt he owed Fury a favor.  Dr. Warren Parker is quickly rescued. 

10 January, Sunday

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The Howlers return to base and Morita meets the rest of his arriving squad. 

11 January, Monday

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Baron Strucker has relocated his command center to Hydra Island, which is about five hundred miles north of Darwin.  He begins a strategy session to decide how to gain a larger power base. 

12 January, Tuesday

13 January, Wednesday

14 January, Thursday

15 January, Friday

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The Howling Commandos storm the Fortress of Fear to discover what the secret weapon the Nazis are working on there is.  Meanwhile, Dino’s leg surgery begins.  Fury battles the iron fisted Colonel Klaue, who runs the place, and the Howlers steal the Thunderer, a jet plane.  They fly it back to base, but crash it upon their arrival. 

16 January, Saturday

17 January, Sunday

18 January, Monday

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Baron Strucker’s Hydra strategy session is finished, they’ve decided to attack passing boat from the island base. 

19 January, Tuesday

20 January, Wednesday

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Colonel Klaue has requested a mission in Africa, but his plane crashes in a storm and only he survives. 

21 January, Thursday

22 January, Friday

23 January, Saturday

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Jacques Dernier is captured by Nazis. 

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Klaue wakes to find himself in Wakanda, where the chief Chanda and his wife Nanali have been taking care of him.  Chanda shows him the Great Mound which contains Vibranium, and Klaue begins to build things from it. 

24 January, Sunday

25 January, Monday

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A mystery submarine destroys an Allied sub about five hundred miles north of Darwin. 

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Capt. Sawyer briefs the Howlers on their mission to rescue French resistance leader Jacques Dernier.  They make their way to France where the resistance tells them what happened to Jacques. 

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The Howlers and the resistance rescue Jacques, but it turns out to be a German spy.  The spy is killed by Nazi troops as he tries to escape, and the real Jacques is found.  They battle their way out of town and the Howlers meet their pickup. 

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Klaue has finished his construct and orders Chanda to obey him.  When he refuses, he starts gunning down Wakandans.  Chanda runs off into the jungle and finds the heart shaped herb, ingests it, and finds a panther.  He kills and skins it, makes a make shift suit out of it, and confronts and defeats Klaue as the Black Panther.  Klaue escapes, Nanali is dead, but Chanda’s infant son T’Chaka will one day rule Wakanda. 

26 January, Tuesday

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The Howling Commandos return to base where Dino is waiting for them.

27 January, Wednesday

28 January, Thursday

29 January, Friday

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The Howlers return to base after a mission, where they’re told that they’ll be in a training film Dino is directing.  As they leave to get ready, Dino introduces them to his girlfriend Nina.  Later, Dino proposes to Nina, then shoots scenes for his film, and later that night Nina reports directly to Hitler that Winston Churchill will be at the base tomorrow.  Hitler assigns the Blitzkrieg Squad to Col. Klaue to assassinate Churchill. 

30 January, Saturday

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As Churchill prepares to give Sgt. Fury a medal Col. Klaue attacks.  After a quick fight, the Blitz Squad is defeated, but Nina is killed in the crossfire. 

31 January, Sunday

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1 February, Monday

2 February, Tuesday

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Dino visits Nina’s grave. 

3 February, Wednesday

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Dino is AWOL, so Fury goes to look for him.  Meanwhile, Capt. Sawyer has a mission for the Howlers but since Fury is gone, he’s declared AWOL as well so McGiveney is put in charge of the Howlers and they’re sent on their mission.  An hour later Fury reports with Dino and they’re confined to quarters.  Instead, they hitch a ride to Germany to catch up with the other Howlers as they’re fighting Nazi troops.  They make their way into town and rescue Eric’s sister Ilsa while the Howlers target a Nazi complex for Allied bombers.  After regrouping, they make their way back to base. 

4 February, Thursday

5 February, Friday

6 February, Saturday

7 February, Sunday

8 February, Monday

9 February, Tuesday

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Captain Savage trains his team, and then briefs them on their mission to stop a mystery sub from destroying Allied & Japanese submarines about five hundred miles north of Darwin. 

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Japanese intelligence puts together a commando squad to investigate a mystery sub that’s been destroying their boats. 

10 February, Wednesday

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The Leatherneck Raiders and the Japanese squad both converge on the island while Baron Strucker watches.  Both teams are captured and the leaders fight each other. 

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Baron Strucker forces the leaders to fight, in the hopes that he can brainwash them to train his Hydra forces.  They eventually team up as the two squads escape and attack Baron Strucker. 

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Hydra forces overtake the two teams as the leaders fight their way to the command center. 

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Baron Strucker prepares to execute the teams; the leaders arrive and drive off the Hydra forces.  Baron Strucker retreats, the teams escape, and Strucker detonates Hydra Island. 

11 February, Thursday

12 February, Friday

13 February, Saturday

14 February, Sunday

15 February, Monday

16 February, Tuesday

17 February, Wednesday

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After fighting Nazi soldiers in Leipzig, Germany, the Howling Commandos meet thief Jean Luc LeBeau to obtain the Momentary Princess jewel under orders from Sam Sawyer.  Also looking for the jewel is Baron Strucker and Candra, trying to regain favor with Hitler. 

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As the Howlers provide cover, Jena Luc attempts to get the Momentary Princess, but Strucker and Candra interfere and the jewel disappears. 

18 February, Thursday

19 February, Friday

20 February, Saturday

21 February, Sunday

22 February, Monday

23 February, Tuesday

24 February, Wednesday

25 February, Thursday

26 February, Friday

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The Howlers are flying into Africa for a mission to stop Nazis from starting a tribe war between the natives when they’re shot down by German flak guns.  The plane crashes and the Howlers make it out, but Fury is missing and assumed dead. 

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Baron Strucker and some natives recover Fury from the crash and take him back to their camp. 

27 February, Saturday

28 February, Sunday

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Fury hallucinates that the Howlers have died in a crash, but Baron Strucker slaps him and questions Fury’s grip on his sanity. 

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1 March, Monday

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The Howling Commandos attend Nick Fury’s funeral in Africa. 

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Dum Dum radios Capt. Sawyer and informs him that Fury is dead.  Meanwhile, Baron Strucker administers more of the hallucinogen and tortures Fury. 

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Strucker reports the progress of his research to the visiting Nazi official.  Meanwhile, the Howlers are ordered to resume their mission to find the Nazi camp. 

2 March, Tuesday

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The Howlers make their way through the jungle and are attacked by Strucker's natives.  As they fight Fury breaks free but doesn’t believe that the Howlers are actually alive. 

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Fury has completely lost it, but his doctor informs the Howlers of someone who could help, if he wasn’t being held by the Nazis.  Capt. Sawyer gives them a 24 hour leave to see what they can do.  Later that day, the Howlers make their way behind enemy lines and rescue the doctor. 

3 March, Wednesday

4 March, Thursday

5 March, Friday

6 March, Saturday

7 March, Sunday

8 March, Monday

9 March, Tuesday

10 March, Wednesday

11 March, Thursday

12 March, Friday

13 March, Saturday

14 March, Sunday

15 March, Monday

16 March, Tuesday

17 March, Wednesday

18 March, Thursday

19 March, Friday

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In Berlin, Catharina gives Logan a locket in bed. 

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Logan and Catharina get dressed and head off for Dr. Lukas Maier’s lab, and are quickly captured.  Catharina has betrayed Logan, because Dr. Maier has Catharina’s sisters. 

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Dr. Maier gasses Logan and kills Catharina.  Logan vows revenge. 

20 March, Saturday

21 March, Sunday

22 March, Monday

23 March, Tuesday

24 March, Wednesday

25 March, Thursday

26 March, Friday

27 March, Saturday

28 March, Sunday

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After psychiatric treatment, Fury appears to have made a full recovery. 

29 March, Monday

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Fury has been assigned to Drill Sergeant until he’s deemed fit for combat.  He meets his new squad and starts putting them through their paces.  That night he meets a girl at the bar after beating up McGiveney. 

30 March, Tuesday

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Fury checks in on his squad, and then runs them through training. 

31 March, Wednesday

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1 April, Thursday

2 April, Friday

3 April, Saturday

4 April, Sunday

5 April, Monday

6 April, Tuesday

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A time traveling Captain America saves Bucky from torture by Hitler and the Red Skull, who are interrogating him for the whereabouts of Captain America. 

7 April, Wednesday

8 April, Thursday

9 April, Friday

10 April, Saturday

11 April, Sunday

12 April, Monday

13 April, Tuesday

14 April, Wednesday

15 April, Thursday

16 April, Friday

17 April, Saturday

18 April, Sunday

19 April, Monday

20 April, Tuesday

21 April, Wednesday

22 April, Thursday

23 April, Friday

24 April, Saturday

25 April, Sunday

26 April, Monday

27 April, Tuesday

28 April, Wednesday

29 April, Thursday

30 April, Friday

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1 May, Saturday

2 May, Sunday

3 May, Monday

4 May, Tuesday

5 May, Wednesday

6 May, Thursday

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The Germans are using POW Private Danny ‘Drummer’ Bellaman in experiments of viral weapons, but the lab is bombed and Drummer escapes with a dangerous virus. 

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Drummer uses a boat to get to London. 

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Wilcox tries to pick up Fury’s girl at the bar, and Fury arrives and beats the tar out of him.  Later, Fury gets lucky. 

7 May, Friday

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Fury leads his squad on a mission to destroy German mines so Allied submarines can get through.  They do so, but encounter German frogmen resistance.  The mission is accomplished, but some of them sustain injuries. 

8 May, Saturday

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While they recover at the base hospital, Fury congratulates Wilcox on a job well done. 

9 May, Sunday

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Now back on active status, Fury runs the Howlers through training. Dum Dum attempts to confront Nick on his relentless behavior, but Fury and Gabe are summoned to Capt. Sawyer before anything comes of it.  

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Capt. Sawyer briefs Fury on Drummer, and reveals that he and Gabe are friends. 

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Fury and Gabe are to find Drummer before the virus is compromised.  They look around town during a Nazi air raid and find out the Germans are looking for him, also. 

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Not trusting anyone, Drummer swallows the virus.  He’s confronted by Nazi agents, but is saved by Fury and Gabe.  As the virus starts to take its effect, Drummer asks Gabe to make it stop, which he does with his gun. 

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Spitfire saves a boy during an air raid in Britain. 

10 May, Monday

11 May, Tuesday

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Gabe plays taps at Drummer’s funeral. 

12 May, Wednesday

13 May, Thursday

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Capt. Sawyer sends the Howlers to North Africa to guard a USO troop.  However, Rommel is attempting a last push with his new super-tank, but the Howlers are to have nothing to do with it.  Later the Howlers arrive in Africa while the Allied camp is under attack, but the Nazis pull out when they have the upper hand.  Fury is ordered to the USO show, but he sends Gabe on a recon mission anyway, who discovers Nazi tanks approaching the camp.  The Allied forces defeat the German tanks with the help of the Howling Commandos.  Afterwards, Rommel is ordered back to Europe; Germany is pulling out of Africa. 

14 May, Friday

15 May, Saturday

16 May, Sunday

17 May, Monday

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In Poznan Poland, Citizen V leads an attack against Baron Zemo and his squadron of Nazis. 

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Baron Heinrich Zemo kills Citizen V by strangling him. 

18 May, Tuesday

19 May, Wednesday

20 May, Thursday

21 May, Friday

22 May, Saturday

23 May, Sunday

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Josef Mengele and Mr. Sinister arrive at Auschwitz (II). 

24 May, Monday

25 May, Tuesday

26 May, Wednesday

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On a training mission, the Howlers recall their first mission and how the got the knick-name ‘the Howling Commandos.’ 

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The Howlers go back to their training exercise. 

27 May, Thursday

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Zemo’s men slaughter what’s left of the V Battalion, a pregnant Paulette Brazee escapes. 

28 May, Friday

29 May, Saturday

30 May, Sunday

31 May, Monday

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1 June, Tuesday

2 June, Wednesday

3 June, Thursday

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Capt. Sawyer gives Fury and Dum Dum their mission: rescue General Ryan’s son Corporal Paul from a Nazi prison camp.  However, he has trouble following orders and isn’t much of a team player.  They quickly leave with the other Howlers. 

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The Howlers are breaking Paul Ryan out of a Nazi prison camp when he defies orders and continues fighting instead of retreating to meet their pickup.  Fury knocks him out so they can escape. 

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Ryan wakes up as a Nazi scout party comes near, so he steals Reb’s gun and drives them away.  Fury tells Ryan that they’re meeting their pickup, but Ryan wants to stay and kill Nazis.  That night Ryan knocks Reb out and goes hunting, almost killing some German soldiers after they surrendered. 

4 June, Friday

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The Howlers make their pickup and Fury lodges a formal complaint against Ryan when they return.  Later at the bar, Fury’s on a date with Ilsa when Ryan enters and starts a fight.  Capt. Sawyer and Gen. Ryan happen by and break it up, and Gen. Ryan calls for Cpl. Ryan’s arrest then apologizes to Fury for his son’s behavior.  After they leave, Capt. Sawyer stays behind and has a few drinks with Fury, Dum Dum, and Ilsa. 

5 June, Saturday

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The Howlers give Dum Dum a new hat. 

6 June, Sunday

7 June, Monday

8 June, Tuesday

9 June, Wednesday

10 June, Thursday