Steve Rogers was born July 4, 1920, in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City Disturbed by the rise of the Third Reich, Rogers attempts to enlist, only to be rejected due to his physically frail body. His resolution however allows him to be noticed by U.S. Army General Chester Phillips and the Project: Rebirth, and he's used as a test subject for the Super-Soldier project, receiving a special serum maede by "Dr. Josef Reinstein", later retroactively changed to a code name for the scientist Abraham Erskine. Unable to create new Super-Soldier, and willing to hide the Project Rebirth fiasco, the U.S.A. Government reimagines Captain America as a patriotic superhero, able to counter the menace of the Red Skull as a counter-intelligence agent. As such, he's supplied with a patriotic uniform (drawn by Roger himself) a bulletproof shield, a personal side arm, and the codename Captain America, while Steve Rogers himself poses as a clumsy infantry private at Camp Lehigh in Virginia.
