Rangers, and was eventually recruited and reunited with Captain Sawyer who assigned him command of the First Attack Squad aka the 'Howling Commandos,' a specially-trained band of soldiers who undertook some of the most dangerous missions of the war. įollowing the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Fury was spurred on by the death of Hargrove during the attack to join the U.S. Eventually Fury reunited with Hargrove, both getting stationed at Pearl Harbor. However Fury didn't enlist until 1941, where he received nine weeks of basic training at Fort Dix without Red Hargrove, hoping to ride out the wave of unemployment in the States. Seeing the Nazi menace firsthand, Hargrove was moved to say he would enlist, and Fury said he would follow him. On this mission Fury made the acquaintance of his future life-long friend, the circus strongman Timothy 'Dum Dum' Dugan. 'Happy Sam' Sawyer who enlisted them for a special mission in Holland. Nick Fury and Hargrove caught the eye of Lt. Fury himself was no stranger to trouble, but more than often confined it to the boxing ring where he would bout, or in the Police Athletic League where he became one of the finest marksman. Living in the tough streets of Hell's Kitchen, Fury soon became fast friends with Red Hargrove, whom he helped keep out of trouble. It wouldn't be until Nick Fury became a soldier himself overseas that he would learn of his father's military service.

Fury's mother died while he was very young and his father Jack Fury, an American pilot who joined the British war effort during World War I, remarried and the children were raised by his stepmother in lieu of Jack Fury's own early death. The eldest of three children, Nicholas Joseph Fury grew up in Depression-era New York City with his brother Jacob and sister Dawn. For a complete history see Nick Fury's Expanded History Early Life History This is an abridged version of Nick Fury's history.

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