On only his second mission, the newly created Captain America
breaks up a gang of American Bundists, delivering them to the FBI and getting
his photo taken by Daily Bugle photographer J. Jonah Jameson. After the excitement
is over, Cap is put in a car and hurried to his next mission: accompanying President Franklin D. Roosevelt
on a fishing trip to the Bahamas. Cap will be undercover as an ordinary
seaman; FDR will actually be meeting secretly with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor:
he’s the Governor of the Bahamas and a known Hitler sympathizer. The
President wants to ensure they will be loyal to Britain and the US. Cap is also
told that there will be two other special agents on the job—though we see that
Betty Dean is having trouble getting a hold of the one she knows….
Aboard ship, “seaman” Steve Rogers gets seasick and meets “seaman”
Jim Hammond, each unaware the other is a special agent for the government….
In Nassau, the President and his party arrive at the Governor’s
residence and the Windsors exchange pleasantries with Roosevelt—and then they
find themselves prisoners of a party of Nazis led by Baron Zemo, who is
planning to kidnap the Windsors and take them to Germany where the Duke of Windsor can
wait to become Hitler’s puppet ruler of Britain when the Nazis win the war. Zemo
resolves to take Roosevelt and his party prisoners too. Meanwhile outside, Nazis
are killing the Navy guards protecting the house—until they come to both
Captain America and the Human Torch. As the Torch flies around the house,
taking out the Nazi soldiers, Cap heads inside to stop Zemo from killing FDR.
Rain prevents the Torch from catching up to the fleeing Germans who return to
their U-boat and leave without Zemo and the Windsors. By now, Zemo has fashioned
a death ray to fight Cap but the hero manages to dodge until he can punch his
foe’s face. The ray goes wild wrecking the house they are in but Zemo escapes
with the help of some sleeper agents, vowing to kill Captain America. Cap pulls
himself from the wreckage, knowing it is his destiny to stop Baron Zemo….
The departing U-boat is found and sunk by Namor, the Sub-Mariner,
while back on land, FDR leaves the Windsors with a vague warning to remain
loyal to Britain. As the party heads for their ship, the two missing sailors,
Jim Hammond and Steve Rogers, show up, each with an excuse for being late. Jim
and Steve quietly hint that they know each other’s secret, hoping to meet again
one day….