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Clifford Carwood Lipton (30 January 1920 – 16 December 2001) [1] was a commissioned officer with Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, during World War II. On the battlefields of Europe, he was promoted to company first sergeant and was awarded a battlefield commission to second lieutenant .
Carwood Lipton, 81, American soldier during World War II and member of the Band of Brothers. [75] Lester Persky, 76, American film, television, and theatre producer, complications following heart surgery. [76] Villy Sørensen, 72, Danish writer, philosopher and literary critic. [77] Lincoln Tate, 67, American actor and marine.
On 13 January 1945, when Easy Company was attacking Foy, several of the men were pinned down by a sniper that nobody could locate. Suddenly, Powers yelled, "I see him!" and fired his rifle, killing the sniper. Later, when Carwood Lipton and Wynn found the sniper's corpse, they were shocked to see the bullet hole centered in the middle of his ...
Sergeant Carwood Lipton recalled later that he had strategized various combat situations with Sergeant Murray while the rest of Easy Company went to the movies the day before the jump. [11] Plane #66 led a diamond formation that also included #67 to the left, #68 to the right, and #69 in the trailing position.
— First Sergeant C. Carwood Lipton, 506th Parachute Regiment, 101st Airborne Division 20. “God almighty, in a few short hours, we will be in battle with the enemy.
Herbert Maxwell Sobel (January 26, 1912 – September 30, 1987) [1] [2] was an American soldier who served as a commissioned officer with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division during World War II.
The 1992 Stephen E. Ambrose book Band of Brothers claimed Speirs' English wife had left him and returned to her first husband, whom she had believed died during the war. [2]: 287 Speirs denied this claim. In a 1992 letter to Winters, Speirs wrote that his first wife simply did not want to move to America with him and be away from her family in ...
In 1989, Malarkey traveled with Ambrose and other members of Easy Company, including Richard Winters and Carwood Lipton, to various sites where they had fought in Europe. [3]: 252 The oral history and first-person recollections that Malarkey and the others provided became the basis for Ambrose's book Band of Brothers, which was published in 1992