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 ==== 1964 ==== ==== 1964 ====
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 +  * Delilah (Dee) Tyler, the future Hourgirl, is born sometime this year to unknown parents. At three months old she is left with Stormy Foster, the former Great Defender, to be raised as his foster daughter. ["Freedom Fighters: The Fight Continues"]
  
 === February === === February ===
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   * The Fuhrer's health now failing, Joseph Mengele takes Adolf Hitler's DNA and improves on it, creating a son and heir for him, intended to become the new Fuhrer when he reaches the proper age. Mengele names the newborn boy Adam Weishaupt Hitler.   * The Fuhrer's health now failing, Joseph Mengele takes Adolf Hitler's DNA and improves on it, creating a son and heir for him, intended to become the new Fuhrer when he reaches the proper age. Mengele names the newborn boy Adam Weishaupt Hitler.
-  * Happy Terrill's wife dies in childbirth giving birth to their son, Ray Terrill. Having inherited his father's powers of light, the newborn Ray was unable to control them. He and the doctor then devised the lie that Ray is fatally allergic to sunlight. Unable to look at his son's face without being reminded of losing his wife, Terrill leaves Ray to be raised for the next 18 years by his brother, Thomas. ["Freedom Fighters: The Fight Continues, Book One"]+  * Happy Terrill's wife dies in childbirth giving birth to their son, Ray Terrill. Having inherited his father's powers of light, the newborn Ray was unable to control them. He and the doctor then devised the lie that Ray is fatally allergic to sunlight. Unable to look at his son's face without being reminded of losing his wife, Terrill leaves Ray to be raised for the next 18 years by his brother, Thomas. ["Freedom Fighters: The Fight Continues"]
  
 ==== 1968 ==== ==== 1968 ====
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   * Protected from the rays' influence, Blackhawk, Stanislaus, and Hendrickson are killed in a risky suicide mission attempting to destroy the mind-control rays.   * Protected from the rays' influence, Blackhawk, Stanislaus, and Hendrickson are killed in a risky suicide mission attempting to destroy the mind-control rays.
   * The Nazi government tries to use the mind-control rays to uncover anyone on Earth who may be a threat to them, and the rays cause people to become subservient to the occupational government. They execute all members of the American Resistance they can find, as well as many people who have super-powers throughout the world, only recruiting a few to work as Nazi super-agents. The ones protected from the mind-rays go underground, fighting the government using guerrilla tactics for the next five years. Other former mystery-men merely live ordinary lives.   * The Nazi government tries to use the mind-control rays to uncover anyone on Earth who may be a threat to them, and the rays cause people to become subservient to the occupational government. They execute all members of the American Resistance they can find, as well as many people who have super-powers throughout the world, only recruiting a few to work as Nazi super-agents. The ones protected from the mind-rays go underground, fighting the government using guerrilla tactics for the next five years. Other former mystery-men merely live ordinary lives.
-  * Jerry Noble (nicknamed the Yankee Eagle) and Joanne Noble (nee Joan Dale, alias Miss America), former heroes and members of the American Resistance, are among those protected by Uncle Sam's mystical influence. They go underground in California. ["Freedom Fighters: The Fight Continues, Book One"]+  * Jerry Noble (nicknamed the Yankee Eagle) and Joanne Noble (nee Joan Dale, alias Miss America), former heroes and members of the American Resistance, are among those protected by Uncle Sam's mystical influence. They go underground in California. ["Freedom Fighters: The Fight Continues"]
   * Alex Luthor's parents, members of the American Resistance, are among those executed. Five-year-old Alex is made a ward of the state. ["Freedom Fighters: What If?"]   * Alex Luthor's parents, members of the American Resistance, are among those executed. Five-year-old Alex is made a ward of the state. ["Freedom Fighters: What If?"]
   * The Nazis are betrayed by their own the highly advanced artificial intelligence (AI) mind they created to help them govern the world. Every last remaining major figure in the Nazi government, also affected by the mind-control rays despite thinking they would be immune to them, are quickly replaced by androids created by the AI.   * The Nazis are betrayed by their own the highly advanced artificial intelligence (AI) mind they created to help them govern the world. Every last remaining major figure in the Nazi government, also affected by the mind-control rays despite thinking they would be immune to them, are quickly replaced by androids created by the AI.
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 === February === === February ===
  
-  * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236)">Bored of the Post-Occupation period of rebuilding, the Freedom Fighters decide to visit Earth-1, intending to return home long before July 4th, 1976 (America's Centennial Independence Day). In New York City, they battle a villain -- who has a Midas touch-like power to turn anything into silver -- named the Silver Ghost, who was secretly Raphael Van Zandt and was convinced the team had come looking for him. New York District Attorney David Pearson provides an old armory to the team as their new headquarters. Planning to destroy them as the Silver Ghost, Van Zandt transforms Phantom Lady, Doll Man, and the Black Condor into silver, then blackmails Uncle Sam, the Human Bomb, and the Ray into being his unwilling pawns to terrorize New York City. The Silver Ghost, claiming to be descended from the family that originally owned Manhattan, demands the evacuation of New York City and implicates the Freedom Fighters as his allies. When Uncle Sam learns that the Silver Ghost plans to kill people, he and the others turn on him and defeat the villain, then the Human Bomb learns the technological secret behind his Midas touch and transforms the three silvery heroes back to normal. Unfortunately, because of their working with the Silver Ghost, the Freedom Fighters become fugitives from the law, and D.A. Pearson sets the police after them. (Earth-1 time: July 1981) [Freedom Fighters #1-2]</span></html>+  * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236)">Bored of the Post-Occupation period of rebuilding, the Freedom Fighters decide to visit Earth-1, intending to return home long before July 4th, 1976 (America's Centennial Independence Day). A side-effect of the prototype transporter they use, invented by scientist Newton P. Lovell, gives Phantom Lady the ability to temporarily become a phantom, gives Black Condor telepathy, grants Doll Man telekinesis, and causes the Human Bomb's entire body instead of just his hands to become explosive, forcing him to permanently wear his protective suit. In New York City, they battle a villain -- who has a Midas touch-like power to turn anything into silver -- named the Silver Ghost, who was secretly Raphael Van Zandt and was convinced the team had come looking for him. New York District Attorney David Pearson provides an old armory to the team as their new headquarters. Planning to destroy them as the Silver Ghost, Van Zandt transforms Phantom Lady, Doll Man, and the Black Condor into silver, then blackmails Uncle Sam, the Human Bomb, and the Ray into being his unwilling pawns to terrorize New York City. The Silver Ghost, claiming to be descended from the family that originally owned Manhattan, demands the evacuation of New York City and implicates the Freedom Fighters as his allies. When Uncle Sam learns that the Silver Ghost plans to kill people, he and the others turn on him and defeat the villain, then the Human Bomb learns the technological secret behind his Midas touch and transforms the three silvery heroes back to normal. Unfortunately, because of their working with the Silver Ghost, the Freedom Fighters become fugitives from the law, and D.A. Pearson sets the police after them. (Earth-1 time: July 1981) [Freedom Fighters #1-2]</span></html>
   * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236)">Visitors from Qward change businessman/lawyer/homicidal maniac Arthur Sommar into Skragg the Super Sniper, who ends up battling the still-fugitive Freedom Fighters. (Earth-1 time: July 1981) [Freedom Fighters #3]</span></html>   * <html><span style="background-color:rgb(236,236,236)">Visitors from Qward change businessman/lawyer/homicidal maniac Arthur Sommar into Skragg the Super Sniper, who ends up battling the still-fugitive Freedom Fighters. (Earth-1 time: July 1981) [Freedom Fighters #3]</span></html>
  
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   * August 4: The Blue Devil of Earth-1 is accidentally sent to Earth-X, where he uncovers a meeting of the Nazi Underground held at Verner Studios in Los Angeles, California. Studio mogul Jock Verner summons V-2 (Van Vanucci) and his Sturm und Drangers (Sharon Scott and Edward Bloom) to battle the Blue Devil, who escapes before they can reach him. //Note: It is evident that Jock Verner was already anticipating the imminent rise of the Axis, including the invasion of California that would take place two days later.//   * August 4: The Blue Devil of Earth-1 is accidentally sent to Earth-X, where he uncovers a meeting of the Nazi Underground held at Verner Studios in Los Angeles, California. Studio mogul Jock Verner summons V-2 (Van Vanucci) and his Sturm und Drangers (Sharon Scott and Edward Bloom) to battle the Blue Devil, who escapes before they can reach him. //Note: It is evident that Jock Verner was already anticipating the imminent rise of the Axis, including the invasion of California that would take place two days later.//
   * August 5: Earth-X is merged with Earth-1, Earth-2, Earth-4, and Earth-S for 24 hours. [Crisis #11-12]   * August 5: Earth-X is merged with Earth-1, Earth-2, Earth-4, and Earth-S for 24 hours. [Crisis #11-12]
-  * August 6: The five Earths are separated once more. The Freedom Fighters, along with Ray Terrill, are left stranded on Earth-2. During their absence the underground Nazi forces take the opportunity to reestablish themselves. They retake Germany (as well as Italy and Japan) in a bloody coup, and then proceed on a whirlwind campaign, managing to conquer much of Europe, England, and Northern Africa, while the Japanese (actually a puppet government for the Nazis) conquer California on the North American continent, all in the space of three months. It is later revealed that they used "sleeper agents," which they had originally established during the years 1968-1973 with their mind-control ray technology, to unwillingly assist them in finding weak points in each nation's defense, as well as using them for sabotage purposes. ["Freedom Fighters: The Fight Continues, Book One"] +  * August 6: The five Earths are separated once more. The Freedom Fighters, along with Ray Terrill, are left stranded on Earth-2. During their absence the underground Nazi forces take the opportunity to reestablish themselves. They retake Germany (as well as Italy and Japan) in a bloody coup, and then proceed on a whirlwind campaign, managing to conquer much of Europe, England, and Northern Africa, while the Japanese (actually a puppet government for the Nazis) conquer California on the North American continent, all in the space of three months. It is later revealed that they used "sleeper agents," which they had originally established during the years 1968-1973 with their mind-control ray technology, to unwillingly assist them in finding weak points in each nation's defense, as well as using them for sabotage purposes. ["Freedom Fighters: The Fight Continues"
-  * Rod Reilly (formerly the original Firebrand) becomes the **Unknown Soldier**, an operative for the Allied forces with refined abilities for disguise, as well as a recuperative power. ["Freedom Fighters: The Fight Continues, Book Two"] +  * Rod Reilly (formerly the original Firebrand) becomes the **Unknown Soldier**, an operative for the Allied forces with refined abilities for disguise, as well as a recuperative power. ["Freedom Fighters: The Fight Continues"
-  * The **[[SS Ubermenschen]]** are revealed to the world as S.S. men with the powers, abilities and names of some of the very first team of Freedom Fighters: the **[[Red Torpedo II]]**, **[[Magno II (Earth-X)|Magno II]]**, the **[[Invisible Hood II]]**, **[[Neon the Unknown II]]**, and the **[[Ray III (Earth-X)|Ray III]]**. They are initially led by the **[[Manhunter II (Earth-X)|Manhunter II]]**, also known as the Manhunter from Mars because he is supposedly a Martian with chalk-white skin. ["Freedom Fighters: The Fight Continues, Book Two"]+  * The **[[SS Ubermenschen]]** are revealed to the world as S.S. men with the powers, abilities and names of some of the very first team of Freedom Fighters: the **[[Red Torpedo II]]**, **[[Magno II (Earth-X)|Magno II]]**, the **[[Invisible Hood II]]**, **[[Neon the Unknown II]]**, and the **[[Ray III (Earth-X)|Ray III]]**. They are initially led by the **[[Manhunter II (Earth-X)|Manhunter II]]**, also known as the Manhunter from Mars because he is supposedly a Martian with chalk-white skin. ["Freedom Fighters: The Fight Continues"]
  
 === September === === September ===
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 === March === === March ===
  
-  * March 14: In Hamburg, Germany, a truckload of gun parts bound for the Eastern Front is stolen by a hijacker named Denny Dyce. ["The Marksman: Unusual Suspects, Book One"]+  * March 14: In Hamburg, Germany, a truckload of gun parts bound for the Eastern Front is stolen by a hijacker named Denny Dyce. ["The Marksman: Unusual Suspects"]
   * March 15: In Occupied England, Wilhelm Schultz evades the Nazi super-agent the Ray II. The Jester II steals a new German secret weapon and uses it on the Ides of March just after midnight to destroy Big Ben and the Dover Radar Line Headquarters, eliminating radar capabilities for nearly four hours. ["The Jester: Laughter in the Dark"]   * March 15: In Occupied England, Wilhelm Schultz evades the Nazi super-agent the Ray II. The Jester II steals a new German secret weapon and uses it on the Ides of March just after midnight to destroy Big Ben and the Dover Radar Line Headquarters, eliminating radar capabilities for nearly four hours. ["The Jester: Laughter in the Dark"]
-  * March 15: While the radar capabilities in England are down early that morning, the gun parts stolen in Hamburg are shipped off to England, where they are received by the British Resistance. That day, five criminals in Hamburg are arrested on suspicion of committing the hijacking -- Red McGraw, Dickie Stanton, Denny Dyce, Wolfgang Hurtz, and Alexander "Mouthpiece" Koda. After they are summarily released the next day, the five men decide to team up for another hijacking together later that week. Successful, the hijackers meet a man in Verona, Italy, for another job. ["The Marksman: Unusual Suspects, Book One"] +  * March 15: While the radar capabilities in England are down early that morning, the gun parts stolen in Hamburg are shipped off to England, where they are received by the British Resistance. That day, five criminals in Hamburg are arrested on suspicion of committing the hijacking -- Red McGraw, Dickie Stanton, Denny Dyce, Wolfgang Hurtz, and Alexander "Mouthpiece" Koda. After they are summarily released the next day, the five men decide to team up for another hijacking together later that week. Successful, the hijackers meet a man in Verona, Italy, for another job. ["The Marksman: Unusual Suspects"
-  * March 22: McGraw, Stanton, Dyce, Hurtz, and Mouthpiece hijack a shipment of diamonds but end up killing three men and discovering heroin instead of the expected diamonds and realize they are being manipulated by someone. ["The Marksman: Unusual Suspects, Book Two"] +  * March 22: McGraw, Stanton, Dyce, Hurtz, and Mouthpiece hijack a shipment of diamonds but end up killing three men and discovering heroin instead of the expected diamonds and realize they are being manipulated by someone. ["The Marksman: Unusual Suspects"
-  * The Freedom Fighters learn of a German plan by a Nazi agent called Dr. Dreizehn (Dr. Thirteen) to find mystical artifacts to help them win the war. //Note: This story is in development. Following this case, the original Freedom Fighters have no more public cases for awhile as part of Uncle Sam's plan to infiltrate the S.S. Ubermenschen with the Ray in place of the Nazi Ray, since the real Ray's absence from a more public team would be noted. Each of the Freedom Fighters go on individual deep cover assignments in their civilian identities, while a new and larger temporary team of Freedom Fighters is later established, as seen in "Freedom Fighters: The Clock Strikes."// ["Freedom Fighters: Bend Sinister"]+  * The Freedom Fighters learn of a German plan by a Nazi agent called Doktor Thirteen (Johann Schmidt), leader of the Thule Society, to find mystical artifacts to help the Germans win the war. //Note: This story is in development. Following this case, the original Freedom Fighters have no more public cases for awhile as part of Uncle Sam's plan to infiltrate the S.S. Ubermenschen with the Ray in place of the Nazi Ray, since the real Ray's absence from a more public team would be noted. Each of the Freedom Fighters go on individual deep cover assignments in their civilian identities, while a new and larger temporary team of Freedom Fighters is later established, as seen in "Freedom Fighters: The Clock Strikes."// ["Freedom Fighters: Bend Sinister"]
  
 === April === === April ===
  
   * Hourgirl is called in to help Ah Chan, an old friend of her foster father who runs the Hedley Heights Retired Living Community. There, she meets [[Drusilla Zero|Dr. Drusilla Zero]], daughter of 1940s ghost-breaker Dr. Stephen Zero, and together they uncover the criminal plot by another retirement home owner to discredit Ah Chan. ["Hourgirl: The Haunting of Hedley Heights"]   * Hourgirl is called in to help Ah Chan, an old friend of her foster father who runs the Hedley Heights Retired Living Community. There, she meets [[Drusilla Zero|Dr. Drusilla Zero]], daughter of 1940s ghost-breaker Dr. Stephen Zero, and together they uncover the criminal plot by another retirement home owner to discredit Ah Chan. ["Hourgirl: The Haunting of Hedley Heights"]
-  * April 15: McGraw, Stanton, Dyce, Hurtz, and Mouthpiece meet with an English lawyer representing the mysterious and dreaded crime lord, Baron Povalsky. The lawyer reveals they have all stolen from the Baron and owe him. After Stanton turns up dead, the men attempt to kill the lawyer but are instead blackmailed into stopping an drug deal by a rival gang of Afghan opium smugglers. ["The Marksman: Unusual Suspects, Book Two"] +  * April 15: McGraw, Stanton, Dyce, Hurtz, and Mouthpiece meet with an English lawyer representing the mysterious and dreaded crime lord, Baron Povalsky. The lawyer reveals they have all stolen from the Baron and owe him. After Stanton turns up dead, the men attempt to kill the lawyer but are instead blackmailed into stopping an drug deal by a rival gang of Afghan opium smugglers. ["The Marksman: Unusual Suspects"
-  * April 18: The five hijackers disrupt the drug deal, only to find that there are no drugs, and all the men except Mouthpiece are killed. Hurtz is himself shot in the chest with a crossbow by Baron Povalsky. ["The Marksman: Unusual Suspects, Book One-Two"] +  * April 18: The five hijackers disrupt the drug deal, only to find that there are no drugs, and all the men except Mouthpiece are killed. Hurtz is himself shot in the chest with a crossbow by Baron Povalsky. ["The Marksman: Unusual Suspects"
-  * April 25: After receiving complete immunity, Mouthpiece is grilled by Count Helmut von Stauffen, the Black Knight of the S.S., who believes Hurtz is Baron Povalsky. Meanwhile, the Red Tornado II of the S.S. Ubermenschen interviews a witness to the slaughter who is the only man alive to have seen the Baron. Mouthpiece leaves the police station in Venice before a sketch made from the witness' description identifies Mouthpiece as the Baron. Baron Povalsky returns to his mountain stronghold, where he introduces himself to the four men he had recruited (and whose deaths he faked) as the Marksman II. Red McGraw becomes the [[Dragon II]], Dickie Stanton becomes [[Madam Fatal II]], and Jake Horn (the real name of Denny Dyce) becomes the [[Horned Owl]]. The Baron reveals to Hurtz that he is his twin brother, raised by different parents. All the men join the [[European Resistance|Resistance]], a Europe-wide underground resistance organization. ["The Marksman: Unusual Suspects, Book One, Book Two"]+  * April 25: After receiving complete immunity, Mouthpiece is grilled by Count Helmut von Stauffen, the Black Knight of the S.S., who believes Hurtz is Baron Povalsky. Meanwhile, the Red Tornado II of the S.S. Ubermenschen interviews a witness to the slaughter who is the only man alive to have seen the Baron. Mouthpiece leaves the police station in Venice before a sketch made from the witness' description identifies Mouthpiece as the Baron. Baron Povalsky returns to his mountain stronghold, where he introduces himself to the four men he had recruited (and whose deaths he faked) as the Marksman II. Red McGraw becomes the [[Dragon II]], Dickie Stanton becomes [[Madam Fatal II]], and Jake Horn (the real name of Denny Dyce) becomes the [[Horned Owl]]. The Baron reveals to Hurtz that he is his twin brother, raised by different parents. All the men form the new [[Death Patrol]], part of a Europe-wide underground resistance organization. ["The Marksman: Unusual Suspects"]
  
 === May === === May ===
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