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Round up the usual
suspects...
Casablanca
Herbert West
Army Surgeon and Scientific Positivist
When the Uncle Sam finally got involved with the War, someone down in
Washington dug out Dr. West's file and took a good reading at it.
The
idea of reanimating corpses through a completely scientific method seemed
just what the Allies needed to face Hitler's Undead Stormtrooper Corps in
Northern Africa and in the Ardennes.
So two men in black took a train
down to the place in Arizona where the guy had holed up under an assumed
name and offered him a lab, a staff, unlimited equipment and... subjects.
Herbert jumped at the opportunity, and after a few weeks of frantic experimentation finally produced a (barely) stable serum. He was flown to the Old Continent and set up a hospital just behind the lines. Soon the tide turned. Casualties were drastically... reduced. Evil was defeated. Men returned home to their wives.
Currently spending his senior years as a General Army Surgeon (Ret.), grown fat on the many pharmaceutical patents in his name, West still has some misgivings about the lot that they forced him to spare after the war ended, and was therefore permitted to get back.
The veterans problem is giving him nightmares, of late.
