While Captain America and the Human
Torch are in Washington for a meeting with the President, Bucky and
Toro are left on their own in a US Army camp in Europe. Bucky
eavesdrops on an important planning session where he learns that
American undercover agent Martin Schiller has been captured by the
Nazis and is being held in a prison camp. While the brass debates the
best way to rescue him before he can be forced to reveal the details
of the Allied operation, Bucky decides to undertake the mission
himself. He persuades Toro to accompany him and they set out to walk
the 85 kilometers to the Nazi camp. Eventually they capture a German
jeep and don uniforms making it easy to reach their destination.
Bucky locates Schiller and sets off an explosion as a distraction; as
they try to leave Bucky discovers another set of prisoners at the
camp: emaciated men wearing Stars of David. The Nazis guards open
fire and the stunned Bucky is shocked to see a mass grave. He goes
berserk, shooting down all the enemy soldiers in sight and hurling
grenades. Toro persuades him to leave with Schiller and that they
can’t do anything about the Jews except get safely back to camp and
send a larger force. Back at camp, the two boy heroes are reprimanded
for their disobedience but Bucky isn’t listening: his mind is on
the horrors he has seen. He confides in Steve when he returns, and
his mentor assures him he did the right thing and they will do
something about it after their next mission. But they never got back
to the concentration camps: one mission led to another until that
fateful day on Zemo’s island which changed Bucky’s life forever….