She first met Steve Rogers at Colonel Phillips' training base and oversaw his and the other potential candidates' training for Operation: Rebirth. When Rogers was selected as the candidate, she escorted him to the U.S. Army's secret base in Brooklyn under a pawnshop. After Dr. Erskine was murdered in after Rogers' successful transformation, she followed the Rogers and the spy into the streets of Brooklyn and fired off several rounds into the car that the spy was escaping in. Colonel Phillips was given a new assignment to take the S.S.R. to Europe to take the fight directly to Hydra and made Agent Carter and Howard Stark a part of his staff. Agent Carter and Howard Stark helped Captain Rogers get to his destination to the secret Hydra base that allied POWs were held. Peggy soon developed a crush for Steve, though referred to it as "having faith in him". She was along with the company of soldiers led by Colonel Phillips to follow Captain Rogers into Hydra's last base of operations. After defeating Schmidt, Captain Rogers flew the Hydra plane into the Atlantic region. During his descent he expressed his grief about not being able to make his date with Agent Carter to her over the military radio frequency. The Strategic Scientific Reserve Headquarters is a main European facility of the Strategic Scientific Reserve located in London, England during World War II.
Colonel Chester Phillips devised a plan, ordering Peggy Carter to contact MI6 in order to locate HYDRA Headquarters, while the SSR would destroy the known facilities with a battalion led by Rogers. Peggy Carter uses a Walther PPK as her sidearm. The Strategic Scientific Reserve Brooklyn Facility, publicly known as Brooklyn Antiques, was a secret facility hidden in an antique shop and run by the Strategic Scientific Reserve during World War II, in order to develop Project Rebirth. Steve Rogers returned to New York City accompanied by Agent Peggy Carter of the Strategic Scientific Reserve to a secret laboratory, in order to become the first test subject of Project Rebirth.
Rogers and Carter arrived to an antique store, that served as entrance to the laboratory, where Abraham Erskine greeted Rogers, and Colonel Chester Phillips attended Senator Brandt and Fred Clemson of the Department of State. Rogers prepared himself for the treatment; Erskine informed the assistants of his intentions with this project, to walk down the path towards peace, and explained the details of the procedure. The film version of Peggy Carter is depicted as a British agent rather than an American. She’s no damsel in distress, waiting for Captain America to save her, but rather a trained fighter who is very much his equal. Roger Ebert felt that she resembled "a classic military pin-up of the period" with her depicted "full red lips" of the film. Peggy is the supervisor of an entire division, in charge of the training and observing of the Project Rebirth experiment. She is a strong woman who doesn't tolerate being disrespected by her subordinates. Her confidence and strength of character are what attracts Steve Rogers to her. Camp Lehigh was a United States Army installation used by the Strategic Scientific Reserve during World War II in New Jersey. After the war, it became one of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s bases, and a bunker was added to house Arnim Zola's brain after his body died. Abraham Erskine pressured himself to find a perfect candidate for the project, in the wake of the failure of Johann Schmidt's procedure. Erskine reminded Chester Phillips that he never wrote down the actual formula of the serum, so Schmidt had no choice but to keep him alive.
Eventually, Erskine picked Steve Rogers, who was brought to the camp as Erskine's primary candidate, although everyone realized that he didn't match with the rest of the candidates. Peggy Carter introduced herself as the overseer of every operation carried out by the SSR and rapidly established her authority. Phillips then gave a speech to the recruits, being distraught by Rogers' frail appearance, and explained the purpose of the Project Rebirth, trying to create an army of super-soldiers to take down Adolf Hitler's forces. I am a huge fan of Marvel's Captain America. I recently visited a WWII exhibit and curated a few key looks of those resembling Steve Roger's military outfits. Peggy Carter is an officer with the Strategic Scientific Reserve who works with Phillips on the super soldier project. Actress Hayley Atwell explains, "She's an English soldier through and through, although she always looks fabulous. She might stand there with a machine-gun shooting Nazis, but she's obviously gone to the loo beforehand and applied a bit of lipstick. She doesn't need to be rescued. That's exciting to me – her strength." She added, "I think she's quite stubborn, a slightly frustrated woman who struggles with being a woman in that time. But more importantly she's a modern woman and she sees something in Captain America that she relates to, and becomes kindred spirits. He treats her very differently to how she's been treated by lots of men, in this kind of dominated world she lives in. So she's very much a fighter." In the photo above, are authentic WWII Army uniforms worn by the women who served, not costumes. Steve Rogers wore a mash up of his patriotic stage costume with military cargo pants and bomber jacket for what has been dubbed as his "Bucky rescue outfit". These images are authentic Army uniforms and military dress, not costumes, on display at the WWII exhibit. The military barrack above, resembles that from Captain America, where skinny Steve meets with Dr. Erskine the night before he is to have his super soldier serum procedure. The origin story says Steven Rogers was born July 4, 1918 in Brooklyn to poor Irish immigrants, Sarah and Joseph Rogers. Joseph died when Steve was a child, and Sarah died of pneumonia while Steve was a teen. By early 1940, before America's entry into World War II, Rogers is a tall, scrawny fine arts student specializing in illustration and a comic book writer and artist. Disturbed by the devastation of Europe by the Nazis, Rogers attempts to enlist, but is rejected due to his frail body. His resolution attracts the notice of U.S. Army General Chester Phillips and "Project: Rebirth". Rogers is used as a test subject for the Super-Soldier project, receiving a special serum made by "Dr. Josef Reinstein", later retroactively changed to a code name for the scientist Abraham Erskine. In March 1941 the serum was successfully given to Steve Rogers, transforming him into a nearly perfect human being with peak strength, agility, stamina, and intelligence. Erskine refused to write down every crucial element of the treatment, leaving behind a flawed, imperfect knowledge of the steps. Thus, when the Nazi spy Heinz Kruger killed him, Erskine's method of creating new Super-Soldiers died. Captain America, in his first act after his transformation, avenges Erskine. The aircraft used by Howard Stark to fly Captain America behind German lines is a Beechcraft Model 18, also known as "Twin Beech". Howard Stark is the son of Howard Stark, Sr., and was born August 15, 1917 in Richford, New York. An avid and brilliant inventor from a young age, he was a brilliant scientist throughout his life. He and his father worked on various projects, and later founded Stark Industries. Throughout his young adulthood, Stark worked on various government projects dating back to the World War I and World War II era. He aided in the Super Soldier Project and then the Strategic Scientific Reserve. His contributions include providing Steve Rogers with both a tactical uniform and trademark shield.
Putting WW2 military outfits together is another challenge. This olive green shirt is paired with a faux suede tan skirt and brown neck tie. Peggy has two different zip-front leather jackets. One with a belted waist, the other with a Sherpa collar. Women in WW2 military wore flat loafer shoes, heeled loafers and boots. Here are a pair of chocolate brown suede, round-toed pumps and a pair of brown suede boots. Either of these could work depending on where Peggy is: pumps for office and meetings. Boots for outdoors, especially in colder weather.
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