In 1954 Nick Fury was sent to French Indochina to assist the French Army in fighting the communist Viet Minh. He met his partner George Hatherly, as well as Shirley DeFabio, the secretary to Congressman McCuskey, and McCuskey himself. While on the assignment Fury and Defabio started to have an affair. When Fury and Hatherly were sent to a French outpost under the command of Major Lallement he was introduced to Sergeant Steinhoff, an ex-SS soldier whom Fury took a dislike to due to his Nazi background. The two got into a fight, but were interrupted by an ambush. They managed to hold back the ambush; however, a second ambush massacred all the French troops at the outpost except Fury and Hatherly who were spared by Letrong Giap.[3]
