Unknown Soldier

The Unknown Soldier was an unnamed man who joined the army in the early part of World War Two, along with his older brother Harry. Both were assigned to the same unit in the Pacific Islands, where Harry was killed saving his brother from a Japanese grenade. The explosion hideously disfigures the young soldier's face beyond repair.

Harry had said that one man being in the right place could mean the difference in winning a battle, and his scarred brother took this to heart. He became a one-man undercover agent, and trained to the peak of physical perfection. He became skilled in make up, and learned how to impersonate almost anybody. From his base at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, the Soldier travelled to both the European and Pacific theatres of World War Two to be in the right place at the right time.

His exploits became legendary; of all the American war heroes who haunted Adolph Hitler, the Soldier became the most hated. The Soldier on occasion would team up with other government agents such as the black jazz player Chat Noir and OSS's Sparrow. While his fame spread throughout the war, he was often opposed and sometimes thwarted by his German counterpart,, the Black Knight.

The Soldier himself infiltrated Hitler's Berlin bunker as the war was ending in Europe in 1945. He "helped" the Fuhrer commit suicide and then left the bunker. The Soldier was then apparently killed while saving a child from an explosion in the streets of Berlin, thus ending his career as it had begun with his older brother's selfless act.

It was later revealed that The Soldier was in fact alive, although his superiors proclaimed him dead, his last appearance to date was in Garth Ennis' Unknown Soldier published by Vertigo in 1997 where he's seen trying to find a successor to replace him as The Soldier.