Comic Title: Star Spangled War Stories #156
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 909 Third Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Apr/May 1971
Approx. On Sale Date: February 23, 1971
Frequency: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.15
Page Count: 32
Circulation: 136326
Editor: Joe Kubert

Title: "Assassination"
Pages: 11

Feature(s):
Unknown Soldier (of Earth-1)

Writer: Bob Haney
Artist: Joe Kubert

Reprinted In:
Showcase Presents the Unknown Soldier Vol. 1 TPB (2007)

Feature Character(s)

• Unknown Soldier (last appearance in Star Spangled War Stories #155; next appearance in Star Spangled War Stories #152)

Villain(s)

• Adolf Hitler (last appearance in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #86; next appearance in Blackhawk #239)
• Helmut Knauss (a German lieutenant; dies before this story begins; as a corpse; no further appearances)
• Several Nazis (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• An English agent (dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Col. Von Stauffenberg (a German military leader; dies in this story; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story takes place on July 20th, 1944. It adapts a real world event in which Colonel Von Stauffenberg attempted to kill Adolf Hitler as part of Operation Valkyrie.

Synopsis:
The Unknown Soldier meets a British agent who tells him of a meeting on July 20th which Adolf Hitler will attend. Disguised as a German lieutenant, the Unknown Soldier infiltrates the Wolf's Lair and plants a bomb intending to kill Hitler. One of Hitler's own advisers, Colonel Von Stauffenberg also carries a bomb to the meeting. He leaves it in the meeting room concealed in a briefcase. However, a soldier returns the briefcase to the colonel outside the room just as it is about to go off. The explosion does not succeed in killing Hitler. The bunker is sealed and the Unknown Soldier's bomb is uncovered. Fortunately, he was able to get outside before the doors were shut. He then escapes, disguised as an old woman.