"Cause we were in awe of them.": Lester Hashey. "I think maybe they were trying to impress." Earl McClung In that same episode (7) when the sniper hits the singing men, the first guy shot (Frank Mellett) lands in Alley's arms In Breaking Point, Skip gives him food while talking about the injured Easy Company men. He's the injured soldier at the beginning of Crossroads who has his face hit by shrapnel. "Most of them were qualified parachutists.": James Alley. He was a father when he got to E Company, hence the nickname Pappy. But if you look up pictures of him when he's younger, he looks like an actor in the Crossroads episode (click link to see what I mean) He was a replacement who joined right before Holland, and makes it through the war with Easy. ![]() Not a character in the show as far as I know. "Its a feeling you will not let your self down.": Carwood Lipton "I think everyone had fear.": Earl McClung "I thought one of two things.": Ed Tipper "I never thought I'd make it through D-Day.": Bill Guarnere "In the back of your mind.": Bill Maynard He's also the character who got hit by an explosion in Carentan and Liebgott comes to help him. His character in the show is there when Sobel cuts the fence loose and Tipper speaks the lines "I think it's Major Horton, sir". "Got such an opening blast.": Buck Compton "Guy says well you jump out of airplanes." : Bill Maynard The real, "One Lung" McClung was able to smell enemy soldiers during patrols according to legends. McClung also goes on the patrol and you can see him there too. He's there when Webster is telling the men that they were going on a patrol ordered by higher ups, and McClung was sitting next to Babe in that scene. His character is shown a few times in the Bastogne episodes, in a foxhole with Guarnere. General Kesselring actually surrendered to him in real life I've read. He is shown in the show towards the beginning of the third episode when he asks Lt. "We came from a small small town.": Rod Strohl. ![]() He broke his legs during the D-Day jump and didn't return to Easy after his injuries. Not in the show as far as I know, or is shown in the background. "Who would like to volunteer.": Bill Maynard. There's a character who has a nametag that says Rogers in the first episode, but that character is actually Mellett. He is not in the show, or is a background character. "Our country was attacked.": Paul Rogers. He knew multiple languages in real life, and this is shown when he tells Webster that the German baker didn't know about the camps in episode 9. He was the soldier along with Christenson, Perconte, Luz, and Bull who found the concentration camp while on patrol in the woods. His character has a small background role, with a few speaking parts in the last few episodes. "We were in a store and a guy in that store. I wrote quick descriptions of the not so obvious characters. Some of the men weren't in the show, some had small roles, and some were main characters. Here's a list of the veterans in the pre-episode interviews and their quotes.
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