I found John Deerfoot totally by accident, selecting a random issue of G.I. COMBAT (November 1958). The story by Bill Finger is nothing special, but the protagonist does precede series characters Johnny Cloud (1960) and Little Sure Shot (1963), the latter being a member of Sergeant Rock's "Easy Company." Deerfoot has nothing to do with Rock's long-lived unit, for evidently the name was in use by DC writers before Rock himself appeared in 1959. In fact, the Wiki article on "Easy Company" alleges that a 1959 Bob Haney story first uses the unit-name, but it seems likely to me that the Finger story was both written and published first-- though who knows (or cares) if Finger was the first DC writer to use the name of the battle-unit.
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