Howling Commandos

The Howling Commandos were an elite combat unit that had been led by Captain America during World War II. At the end of the war and Captain America's apparent demise, their unit continued to be active and was led by Dum Dum Dugan. The team was given its name by Junior Juniper, one of their members who was killed in the line of duty.
==History==
===World War II===
====Recruited by Captain America====
The team was formed during World War II out from various Allied P.O.W.s after they were rescued, along with 394 other soldiers that were held prisoners at the HYDRA Base Camp C3, by Captain America, who infiltrated the base after learning that the 107th was held captive there. Though loyal to the American Strategic Scientific Reserve, the unit consisted of fighters from the United States Armed Forces' 107th Infantry Regiment, the British Military, and the French Resistance.
====HYDRA Raids====
|Captain America leading the Commandos
The new unit, led by Rogers and Bucky Barnes, traveled around Western Europe to eliminate every HYDRA base they could find. Their operations were some of the most successful of the entire war. The team was responsible for the capture of Arnim Zola during a raid on a train in the Alps. It was on this mission that Bucky Barnes was lost and presumed dead.
They also participated in attacking Johann Schmidt's last base along with other U.S. forces led by Colonel Chester Phillips. The battle was eventually won. However, despite Schmidt's apparent death and foiled plans, Captain America went missing in action after crashing Schmidt's plane to save the mainland United States.
After Captain America was lost over the Arctic Ocean, the team assisted the during .
Dum Dum Dugan and Jim Morita were sent to Austria with Strategic Scientific Reserve agent Peggy Carter to take possession of artifacts at the last known HYDRA Facility located there. They captured HYDRA General Werner Reinhardt, his troops and an Obelisk classified as an 0-8-4.Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 2.01: Shadows
On V-E Day, the Commandos assembled in London and mourned the loss of Captain America.
===Post-War===
Following World War II, Junior Juniper, Pinky Pinkerton, and Happy Sam Sawyer joined the team. Juniper thought of a name for the team, the Howling Commandos, much to Sawyer's hatred.Agent Carter: 1.05: The Iron Ceiling They served as a tactical team for the 107th Infantry Regiment. Some members eventually leaving the unit but new recruits came.Guidebook to the Marvel Cinematic Universe - Marvel's Agent Carter Season One In 1946, the Howling Commandos were called by Peggy Carter to help her, SSR agent Jack Thompson, and his team in infiltrating a Leviathan base camp in Byelorussia. They met Carter and the team and escorted them to Belarus. Infiltrating the facility, they discovered various methods of dispensing subliminal messages. They encountered a little girl supposedly left behind, and Dum Dum Dugan went to comfort her, only to be non-fatally stabbed by the girl, who quickly shot and killed Junior Juniper before escaping.
Going deeper into the facility, the team found the scientists Nikola and Ivchenko. Freeing them, they ran into an ambush where Nikola tried to use Happy Sam Sawyer as a hostage. Ivchenko killed Nikola, allowing the Commandos and Carter's team to escape.
The Howling Commandos said goodbye to Carter and her team, and Dugan told Carter that she was an honorary Commando, giving her the nickname "Miss Union Jack." He also gave Ivchenko his bottle of bourbon.
===Legacy===
====Museum Exhibit====
The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. created an exhibit which featured Captain America with the original Howling Commandos. In 2014, Bucky Barnes went to see the display, which reminded him of his past.Captain America: The Winter Soldier Post-Credits Scene
==Members==
===Former Members===
====Captain America====
*Name: Steven Grant "Steve" Rogers
*Activity: 1943 - 1945
*Status: Unknown
*Description: Steven "Steve" Grant Rogers was the team leader of the Howling Commandos and decorated war hero for the Army. After Abraham Erskine injected the Super Soldier Serum into Steve for Project Rebirth, his body transformed into the powerful super-enhanced solder. Rather than be confined to a lab while scientists attempted to recreate Erskine's formula, Senator Brandt offers to place Rogers, after his actions in stopping Heinz Kruger and saving the young child had been noticed by the public, a chance to serve his country on the most important battlefield of the war, promoting war bonds, which Rogers accepted. He began performing for war bond campaigns, where he posed as a patriotic mascot under the moniker of Captain America. Although he was only sent overseas to promote war bonds, he first take action against HYDRA by liberating the Allied prisoners, and was recognized for his heroics, promoting the Joint Chiefs of Staff to allow Rogers to take part in the fight against HYDRA and Nazi Germany. He forms the Howling Commandos, serving as the leader for the special unit. He is considered to be the world's first superhero. Rogers destroyed multiple HYDRA bases, crippling the organization while at the same time, fight against the German forces in Europe. During his final battle with the leader of HYDRA, the infamous Red Skull, Rogers crashed a plane into the Arctic and was frozen in ice for nearly seventy years. In the contemporary period, Steve Rogers would later serve as the founding member of the Avengers.
====Bucky Barnes====
*Name: James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes
*Activity: 1943 - 1945
*Status: Alive
*Description: James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes was a former sergeant of the 107th Infantry Regiment and the best friend of Steve Rogers since childhood. Barnes had enlisted into the Army and was assigned to the 107th in 1943. His unit was captured by HYDRA, where Barnes was tortured and injected with the Super Soldier Serum by Arnim Zola. Barnes was rescued by Rogers, who had become Captain America. Barnes and Rogers then formed the Howling Commandos to battle Red Skull's forces, serving as the sniper in the unit. During the attempt to capture Zola in the Austrian Alps, Barnes and Rogers were caught up in the ambush before Barnes plummeted hundreds of feet. As no body was recovered, Barnes was presumed deceased and honored as a hero who died in service to his country and to his best friend. Unbeknownst to his team, Barnes' enhanced abilities by the serum allowed him to survive the fall, albeit with the loss of his left arm. He was found by the Soviet Armed Forces and HYDRA, and Barnes was brainwashed, making him amnesic of his past life due to the brainwashing. Now armed with a new cybernetic arm in order to become their operative, Barnes adopted the new identity known as the Winter Soldier.
====Dum Dum Dugan====
*Name: Timothy Alloysius Cadwaller "Dum Dum" Dugan
*Activity: 1943 - 1946
*Status: Unknown
*Description: Corporal Timothy Aloysius Cadwallader "Dum Dum" Dugan was a non-commissioned officer during World War II in the Army. Dum Dum served in the 107th Infantry Regiment along with Bucky Barnes and Gabe Jones, fighting in many battles against the Wehrmacht and HYDRA, which would constantly invent new high tech weapons, using a mysterious power source, to destroy the Allied defenses. After being rescued from a HYDRA prison camp with other soldiers by Steve Rogers, known as Captain America, he was recruited into the newly formed Howling Commandos, serving as the unit's close-combat fighter, and had fought alongside the Howling Commandos. becoming the key in ending the war, defeat Red Skull as well as Werner Reinhardt and allowing the Allied forces to finally claim their final victory. After Rogers was seemingly killed during a mission against World War II, Dugan took command of the Howling Commandos, leading them into many new covert missions to keep the world at peace in the wake of the post war while recruiting new members such as Junior Juniper and Happy Sam Sawyer. He remained close to many of his fellow soldiers who he had fought with after the war, including Howard Stark and Peggy Carter.
====Gabe Jones====
*Name: Gabriel "Gabe" Jones
*Activity: 1943 - 1945
*Status: Unknown
*Description: A native of Macon, Georgia, Gabriel "Gabe" Jones studied German and French at Howard University before joining the Army, serving in the 92nd Infantry, a segregated unit consisting of mainly African Americans. In 1943, while fighting alongside Bucky Barnes and Dum Dum Dugan from the 107th Infantry Regiment, Jones was captured by HYDRA and placed in a cell with other allied prisoners where he was forced to build powerful weapons for his enemy. until Steve Rogers frees them. Rogers offers Gabe to join his special unit which he gladly accepts, serving as the unit's primary machine gunner for the Howling Commandos. After Bucky was presumably killed in action, Jones joins the Howling Commandos in the final assault against HYDRA at Johann Schmidt's fortress, and was one of the last people to speak with Captain America before he was considered deceased after crashing the plane carrying warheads into the Artic.
====Happy Sam Sawyer====
*Name: Samuel "Happy Sam" Sawyer
*Activity: 1946
*Status: Alive
*Description: Captain Samuel "Happy Sam" Sawyer is an officer of the United States Army Rangers and a member the US Army Nisei Division; where Private Jim Morita was a member of his unit. After World War II ended, Happy Sam Sawyer became a part of the new Howling Commando unit consisting of Dum Dum Dugan, Junior Juniper and Pinky Pinkerton in the beginning of the Cold War. Happy serves as the unit's primary driver when they were stationed in Russia. They were called upon to assist Strategic Scientific Reserve agents Peggy Carter, Jack Thompson, Rick Ramirez and Mike Li in an infiltration mission on the Red Room Academy, in Belarus.
====Pinky Pinkerton====
*Name: Percival "Pinky" Pinkerton
*Activity: 1946
*Status: Alive
*Description: Percival "Pinky" Pinkerton is a British Army officer, who served with James Montgomery Falsworth in the 1st Airborne Division (United Kingdom). After World War II ended, Pinkerton is recruited and became a part of new team of Howling Commandos. They were stationed in Russia when the Strategic Scientific Reserve agents Peggy Carter, Jack Thompson, Rick Ramirez and Mike Li requested their assistance to infiltrate a Red Room Academy in Belarus.
===Deceased Members===
====Jim Morita====
*Name: James "Jim" Morita
*Activity: 1943 - 1946
*Status: Deceased
*Description: James "Jim" Morita was a Japanese-American soldier who was born in Fresno, California. Originally, he served in the US Army Nisei Squadron as a Ranger under the command of Happy Sam Sawyer. However, by October 1943, Morita had been captured by HYDRA and sent to the weapons facility in Austria. After being rescued by Steve Rogers, who was known as Captain America, he was offered a chance to join his personal unit, the Howling Commandos, led by Rogers himself. Morita accepted, and along with the other Howlers, Morita took part in every assault against HYDRA, serving as the main radioman for the unit. He was able to intercept a HYDRA radio message allowing them to locate Arnim Zola. Captain America, Bucky Barnes and Gabe Jones attacked the train but only Rogers and Jones returned with Zola. During the attack on Johann Schmidt's fortress, Morita and the other commandos were the first to attack while Morita called the rest of the army unit to attack as they were able to capture the fortress. However, Rogers crashed the plane carrying warheads to America and went missing in action. After the war, Morita, along with SSR agent Peggy Carter and fellow commando Dum Dum Dagan captured the last known HYDRA base in Austria, along with HYDRA General Werner Reinhardt and an artifact of unknown origin known as the Obelisk due to its shape. He returned to the U.S. where he married and had a child.
====James Montgomery Falsworth====
*Name: James Montgomery Falsworth
*Activity: 1943 - 1945
*Status: Deceased
*Description: James Montgomery Falsworth was born in Birmingham, England. He was a member of the 3rd Independent Parachute Brigade of the British Armed Forces with the rank of Major. His unit was captured by the Germans in October 1943 and sent to work at the top secret HYDRA weapons facility in the Austrian Alps. Falsworth and the rest of the prisoner soldiers were freed by Steve Rogers who was known as Captain America and slowly marched to the U.S. military base in Italy. Falsworth was then recruited into the Howling Commandos to be Captain America's personal unit, and helped fighting HYDRA forces, serving as a spy and strategist for the unit. In April 1944, Falsworth and the other Commandos confronted the Red Skull and halted his research into Asgardian Runestones. He helped to raid the HYDRA Headquarters with the other Commandos. After Captain America's supposed death, and by the end of World War II, Falsworth had risen to the rank of Brigadier.
====Jacques Dernier====
*Name: Jacques Dernier
*Activity: 1943 - 1945
*Status: Deceased
*Description: Jacques Dernier joined the French Resistance when World War II began and France was occupied by German forces. Eventually, Dernier was captured by the Germans and sent to work at the HYDRA weapons facility in the Austrian Alps. In October 1943, he met other Allied POWs: Bucky Barnes, Dum Dum Dugan, Gabe Jones, and James Montgomery Falsworth. When Captain America single-handedly assaulted the facility in which he was prisoner, Dernier, along with his companions, broke free and arrived back to United States Army base in Italy. Shortly after their break-out, Dernier and his comrades were invited to join a special operations unit led by Rogers himself. Along with the other Commandos, Dernier took part in many assaults against HYDRA, serving as the team's demolition expert, until the end of the war.
====Junior Juniper====
*Name: Jonathan "Junior" Juniper
*Activity: 1946
*Status: Deceased
*Description: Junior Juniper was the newest member of the tactical team, one of which Captain America once previously led after the end of the war, and became a covert team for the Strategic Scientific Reserve. He nicknamed the team, the Howling Commandos, which met up with Peggy Carter and her SSR team consisting of Jack Thompson and Mike Li to infiltrate a Red Room Academy in Belarus. Juniper was killed by a Red Room assassin prodigy, Eva when Dugan approached her, trying to calm the girl down, but she stabbed him, took his gun, spun, and shot Juniper in the heart, killing him.
==Howling Commando Gear==
Antoine Triplett's mother allowed her son to have a suitcase filled with many of the gadgets that the Howling Commandos used over the years, so that Coulson's Team could take down the Centipede Project.Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 1.21: Ragtag
==Appearances==
Appearances for Howling Commandos
In chronological order:
*Captain America: The First Avenger
**Avengers: Infinity War: The Heroes' Journey (flashback)
*Captain America: First Vengeance
*Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
**Season Two
***Shadows (flashbacks)
*Agent Carter
**Season One
***The Iron Ceiling
*Captain America: The Winter Soldier (footage, pictures, & mentioned)
*Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
**Season One
***The Only Light in the Darkness (mentioned)
***Ragtag (mentioned)
**Season Two
***The Things We Bury (mentioned)
***What They Become (mentioned)
***Aftershocks (photograph)
***Afterlife (mentioned)
*Spider-Man: Homecoming (picture)
*Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
**Season Four
***No Regrets (mentioned in the Framework)
*The Falcon and The Winter Soldier
**Season One
***New World Order (picture)
*Deadpool & Wolverine (footage)
==Trivia==
*In the comics, the Howling Commandos were an elite US military unit formed by Happy Sam Sawyer and lead by Nick Fury, that fought many supervillains like Baron Strucker, Heinrich Zemo and Red Skull during World War II. After the war, many of the Commandos members joined S.H.I.E.L.D., and different iterations of the team were created.
*The Marvel Cinematic Universe's version of the Howling Commandos share traits with the Invaders, a World War II superhero group that was led by Captain America and included James Barnes, James Montgomery Falsworth, and Namor the Sub-Mariner among their ranks. In the non-canon video game Captain America: Super Soldier, the Howling Commandos are called the Invaders.Captain America: Super Soldier They were also called the Invaders in shooting script of Captain America: The First Avenger.
*S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Antoine Triplett's grandfather is one of the Howling Commandos.Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 1.19: The Only Light in the Darkness
*Jim Morita and his grandson, were both played by the same actor.
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