Steve Rogers
Steve Rogers is one of the original Defenders. Born on Jul 4, 1918.
Steve would attempt to enlist in the US Military multiple times after America officially joined the Allied effort. He was eventually recruited into the Strategic Scientific Reserve by Abraham Erskine. He would be selected for the Super-Soldier program, advanced infantry development. The procedure would turn him into a perfect human specimen, a vast leap forward in human evolution.
As an officer in the US Army, he found his chief antagonist in the director of the Nazi's science division: HYDRA, and its leader, Col. Johann Schmidt. Though the other Purifiers would threaten the world, Rogers and Schmidt held a particular enmity, both in terms of personality and ideologies.