[citation needed] Happy Sam Sawyer was assigned to the British Commandos by the U.S. Army.

He trained for parachuting in Britain in 1940 with Finley's Flying Circus, alongside daredevil parachutist Nick Fury and pilot Red Hargroves.

[2] In 1942, Sawyer, who had been wounded in North Africa and was deemed unfit for combat missions, organized and led the Howling Commandos, Bull McGiveney's Maulers, Jim Morita's Nisei Squad, and Sgt.

[volume & issue needed] In modern times, Baron Strucker created an LMD of Sawyer that attacked the original Howling Commandos as well as Captain America.

Sawyer would sacrifice himself when the LMD detonated itself while trying to gain missile navigation override codes.