C. Carwood Lipton

Hardly 22 years of age, C. Carwood Lipton joined the U.S. Army's 101stAirborne Division in 1942 as a lowly private. He left the Army afterWorld War II having received a battlefield commission to the rank ofsecond lieutenant. In the meanwhile he had joined in the paratrooperinvasion of bloody Utah Beach in Normandy, France, on 6th June 1944 --the initial drive against the Germans. He participated in the Battle ofthe Ardennes (aka The Battle of the Bulge) from Dec. 1944 to Jan. 1945, bywhich time he had risen to the rank of first sergeant. He was awardedthe Bronze Star Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster and the Purple Heart with two Oak Leaf Clusters.It was Lipton who suggested the title for Band of Brothers (2001) - it comes from the king's address to his troops in William Shakespeare's "Henry V".




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Hardly 22 years of age, C. Carwood Lipton joined the U.S. Army's 101stAirborne Division in 1942 as a lowly private. He left the Army afterWorld War II having received a battlefi... [Details Intro]