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 Sergant Ed Tipper (deceased) Died : 2017 *Signature Value : £40 Editions signed : Limited edition of 450 prints. 101st Airborne edition of 225 artist proofs Collectors edition of 350 prints 101st Airborne edition of 125 prints Collectors remarque edition of 10 prints | Tipper, Ed (Sergant Ed Tipper (deceased)) Ed Tipper volunteered for the paratroopers and was assigned to Easy Company, 101st Airborne. He made his first jump into Normandy on D-Day. Fighting in Carentan, he was hit by a mortar shell and badly injured. His right eye was damaged, and later removed completely, while both his legs were broken. He was first sent to England then repatriated to the United States. When I came out of the Army I walked with a cane and wore an eye patch. The thing I remember most was the tremendous response of everybody I met to do everything they could do to show support for the military. Maybe the support felt exaggerated to me because I had clearly been shot up and wounded. Whenever I ate at a restaurant I went to the cashier and there was almost never a bill. Or the waitress nodded her head and said, 'A gentleman over at that table has paid.' Of course I was home a year ahead of everybody else. But that sort of thing happened to me a lot. He died on 1st February 2017. |
 Private 1st Class Bill Maynard *Signature Value : £40 Editions signed : Limited edition of 450 prints. 101st Airborne edition of 225 artist proofs Collectors edition of 350 prints 101st Airborne edition of 125 prints Collectors remarque edition of 10 prints | Maynard, Bill (Private 1st Class Bill Maynard) Born in 1923, Bill Maynard enlisted into the 101st Airborne Division in 1942, completing his training with Easy Company at camp in Toccoa, Georgia. Posted to Europe, Bill completed his combat training prior to D-Day, and jumped with the rest of Easy Company into Normandy on D-Day itself. He was wounded in heavy fighting shortly afterwards, receiving the Purple Heart, but continued to fight on. An experienced marksman with pistol, rifle and machine-gun, he fought with Easy Company throughout Normandy, into Holland, at Bastogne, and into southern Germany at the end of the war. |
  Corporal Herb Jr Suerth (deceased) Died : 2017 *Signature Value : £45 Editions signed : Limited edition of 450 prints. 101st Airborne edition of 225 artist proofs Collectors edition of 350 prints 101st Airborne edition of 125 prints Collectors remarque edition of 10 prints | Suerth, Herb (Corporal Herb Jr Suerth (deceased)) 18 year old Herb Suerth enlisted as a volunteer for the Reserve Engineer Corps on 11th November 1942, but after a change of heart in 1944 he was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division, beginning parachute school training in August that year. After final combat training in Holland, Herb was trucked into Bastogne in December 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge, also fighting in Foy. On 9th January 1945 Herb was wounded by artillery fire and his legs were severely injured but ultimately saved. He was shipped out of England and back to the US on 8th April 1945. He died on 14th October 2017. |
  Colonel Ed Shames (deceased) Died : 2021 *Signature Value : £45 Editions signed : 101st Airborne edition of 225 artist proofs Collectors edition of 350 prints 101st Airborne edition of 125 prints Collectors remarque edition of 10 prints | Shames, Ed (Colonel Ed Shames (deceased)) Enlisting in September 1942, Ed Shames was to become one of the most respected officers in the 101st Airborne Division, a stickler for detail he always got the job done, and brought his men home. Originally assigned to I Company in the 3rd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment he was then transferred to Headquarters Company. He received a battlefield commission during the taking of Carentan in Normandy, and joined Easy Company in July 1944 as a 2nd Lieutenant prior to Operation Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge. He died aged 99 on 3rd December 2021. |
  Sergeant William True (deceased) Died : 2017 *Signature Value : £50 Editions signed : 101st Airborne edition of 225 artist proofs Collectors edition of 350 prints 101st Airborne edition of 125 prints Collectors remarque edition of 10 prints | True, William (Sergeant William True (deceased)) Bill True served with the 506th Parachute Regiment which was attached to the 101st Airborne. He took part in the initial parachute drop into France with the 101st on D-Day, and by the end of the day they were in control of the high ground overlooking the invasion beach. Bill made his second combat drop with the 101st near Eindhoven during Operation Market Garden, before, in December 1944, finding himself in the thick of the action defending the town of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, where the 506th defended the eastern perimeter section of the town. Advancing into Germany, the 506th's final mission of the war was the capture of Hitler's Eagle Nest at Berchtesgaden on 4th - 5th May 1945. He died on 20th March 2017. |
 Private 1st Class Bill Wingett (deceased) Died : 2020 *Signature Value : £45 Editions signed : 101st Airborne edition of 225 artist proofs Collectors edition of 350 prints 101st Airborne edition of 125 prints Collectors remarque edition of 10 prints | Wingett, Bill (Private 1st Class Bill Wingett (deceased)) Bill Wingett originally enlisted on 9th December 1941, two days after Pearl Harbor was attacked, but after a car crash, hospitalisation and subsequent discharge from the forces meant he had to try again on 19th August 1942. Bill was a machine gunner with Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne up until 5 days before D-Day where he was transferred to Headquarters Company. He fought in the campaigns of Normandy, Holland and Bastogne receiving a Purple Heart in each. Discharged on 23rd November 1945, Bill returned 10 months later to join the 82nd Airborne for 3 years as a maintenance man at Fort Bragg Airfield. He died on 1st October 2020 aged 98. |
 First Sergeant Frank Soboleski *Signature Value : £40 Editions signed : 101st Airborne edition of 225 artist proofs 101st Airborne edition of 125 prints | Soboleski, Frank (First Sergeant Frank Soboleski) Joining the Army in 1943, Frank Soboleski parachuted into Holland in September 1944 as part of the 101st Airbornes reserve unit, ready to help if the first two units needed it - they did. Franks unit, Easy Company, was next in combat at Bastogne; surrounded by Germans in the freezing cold for a month. The company then moved on to Haguenau in France, and finally to Berchtesgaden in southern Germany when the war ended. Frank remained in southern Germany and Austria for another six months and was discharged in January 1946. |
  Sergeant Amos Buck Taylor (deceased) Died : 2011 *Signature Value : £45 Editions signed : 101st Airborne edition of 225 artist proofs 101st Airborne edition of 125 prints | Taylor, Amos Buck (Sergeant Amos Buck Taylor (deceased)) Having worked in a factory making Sherman Tanks, Buck aided the war effort even further by becoming a Paratrooper and enlisted in July 1942 before being assigned to 3rd Platoon upon his arrival at Toccoa. When jumping into Europe on D-Day he was 2nd Squad Leader but having scattered on the jump, it was not until several days later that he joined up with the rest of the company, just prior to the attack on Carentan during which he was made 3rd Platoon Sergeant. At the Battle of the Bulge, when advancing from Bastogne to Foy, Buck was badly injured when shot in the leg which saw the end of his war spending 11months in hospital. He died on 24th August 2011. |
  Sergeant Paul Rogers (deceased) Died : 2015 *Signature Value : £50 Editions signed : 101st Airborne edition of 225 artist proofs 101st Airborne edition of 125 prints | Rogers, Paul (Sergeant Paul Rogers (deceased)) Aged 24, Paul Rogers volunteered to be a Paratrooper in 1942 and soon found himself at Toccoa training under Colonel Sink. When jumping into Europe on D-Day, Paul lost most of his equipment, including his rifle, and his parachute snagged on trees from which he had to cut himself loose; he later found out he had landed eight miles from the intended drop zone. With the 3rd Battalion he fought throughout Normandy but was injured when jumping into Holland as part of Operation Market Garden and subsequently spent four weeks in hospital. Upon rejoining the platoon he stayed with them all the way through to Hitler's Eagles Nest in Berchtesgaden. He died aged 96 on 16th March 2015. |
 Private Ed Joint *Signature Value : £40 Editions signed : 101st Airborne edition of 225 artist proofs Collectors edition of 350 prints 101st Airborne edition of 125 prints Collectors remarque edition of 10 prints | Joint, Ed (Private Ed Joint) 101st airborne division, Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. We were sent out to take a machine gun position. It was just before the battle of Foy ended. I was running up a hill and got hit by shrapnel in my right arm. I went flying up in the air, I didn't know at first what hit me. Somebody hollered for a medic. They put me on a stretcher and took me to a field hospital. They couldn't do nothing with it there, so they took me back and put me in a hospital in Paris. A medic said, You can go home now soldier, you ain't going to fight no more. But twenty days later I hitchhiked back to Company E to find them. They were just getting ready to go to Germany. What made me want to go back and fight? I don't know. They were my outfit, my friends. |
 Private Hank Zimmerman *Signature Value : £10 Editions signed : 101st Airborne edition of 225 artist proofs 101st Airborne edition of 125 prints | Zimmermann, Hank (Private Hank Zimmerman) 2nd Battalion, E Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. |
| S/ Sgt George Koskimaki *Signature Value : £35 Editions signed : 101st Airborne edition of 225 artist proofs Collectors edition of 350 prints 101st Airborne edition of 125 prints Collectors remarque edition of 10 prints | Koskimaki, George (S/ Sgt George Koskimaki) 101st Signal Company |
| Operations Sergeant Ed Hallow *Signature Value : £35 Editions signed : 101st Airborne edition of 225 artist proofs Collectors edition of 350 prints 101st Airborne edition of 125 prints Collectors remarque edition of 10 prints | Hallow, Ed (Operations Sergeant Ed Hallow) A Company, 101st Airborne |
 Sergeant Don Burgett *Signature Value : £40 Editions signed : 101st Airborne edition of 225 artist proofs Collectors edition of 350 prints 101st Airborne edition of 125 prints Collectors remarque edition of 10 prints | Burgett, Don (Sergeant Don Burgett) A Company, 101st Airborne.Donald 'Don' R. Burgett was born on April 5, 1925 in Detroit, Michigan. On his 18th birthday, on April 5th, 1943 Donald joined the paratroopers enlisting in Detroit, Michigan. They sent Donald Burgett to Fort Riley, Kansas in order to join the last Unit of the Horse Cavalry still running. He thus did his basic training with the 2nd Regiment of the 1st Horse Cavalry. When he ended his basic training, he was transferred to the Army Paratroops at Fort Benning where he got his parachute training. On February 5, 1944, he left the United States. He travelled through Ireland and Scotland before arriving in England. He joined the 101st Airborne in Aldbourne, England in February 1944. On June 6th at 1:14 a.m. nearby Ravenoville Donald Burgett was the 6th to jump. Their main mission was to capture and hold 4 exits of the beaches of Utah Beach. The gathered troop under the command of platoon leader, 2nd Lt Bill Muir with some other men and with some of the 82nd Airborne, attacked and freed Ravenoville, the first village of Europe of WWII to be re occupied. The 82nd Airborne occupied Ste Mere Eglise, the first city being released in Normandy during the night of June 6, 1944. Burgett was wounded twice, on June 13, 44, while attacking with his bayonet in southern Carentan while attacking positions held by the 17th SS and 6th German Paratroopers. Burgett woudl go onto fight in other battles, Arnhem, Bastogne and Rhine Crossing. Donald Burgett is the author of a number of books which are: The Road to Arnhem about Holland, Seven roads to Hell about Bastogne and Beyond the Rhine about Germany. A great insight |
 Sergeant Rod Bain *Signature Value : £15 Editions signed : 101st Airborne edition of 225 artist proofs 101st Airborne edition of 125 prints | Bain, Rod (Sergeant Rod Bain) E Comapny, 506th Parchute Infantry Regiment. |
| Private Phil Peruginni *Signature Value : £15 Editions signed : 101st Airborne edition of 225 artist proofs 101st Airborne edition of 125 prints Collectors remarque edition of 10 prints | Peruginni, Phil (Private Phil Peruginni) E Company, 101st Airborne |
 S/Sgt Earl McClung *Signature Value : £15 Editions signed : 101st Airborne edition of 225 artist proofs 101st Airborne edition of 125 prints | McClung, Earl (S/Sgt Earl McClung) E Company, 101st Airborne. Kaprun, Austria - I thought I had died and gone to heaven there. My job was to hunt and feed the prisoners that the Germans had taken for slave labor who were incarcerated there. The prisoners were freed by then but they had no place to go. I think they were Polish and Romanian mostly. The job fell to us to feed them. I fed them stag and chamois (goats with little hooked horns) until they were coming out of the ears. So I finally got to do some hunting like I enjoyed. I just camped out. [My outfit] saw me maybe once or twice a week. |
| Private James Martin *Signature Value : £15 Editions signed : 101st Airborne edition of 225 artist proofs 101st Airborne edition of 125 prints | Martin, James (Private James Martin) G Company, 101st Airborne |
| Captain Vinnie Vicari *Signature Value : £10 Editions signed : 101st Airborne edition of 225 artist proofs 101st Airborne edition of 125 prints | Vicari, Vinnie (Captain Vinnie Vicari) D Company, 101st Airborne |
 M/Sgt Clancy Lyall *Signature Value : £15 Editions signed : 101st Airborne edition of 225 artist proofs 101st Airborne edition of 125 prints | Lyall, Clancy (M/Sgt Clancy Lyall) E Company, 101st Airborne. Clarence 'Clancy' Lyall was born on 14th October 1925 in Orange, Texas. In 1939 Lyall moved to Pennsylvania and joined the Army in 1942. Lyall went to Florida in 1943 for basic training and in April 1943 went to Airborne School, and this was followed with further training in Communications and Demolition. In May 1944 Lyall joined the 2nd Battalion 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. During Operation Overlord, Lyall landed in a tree 2 miles from St Mere-Eglise. He was cut down out of the tree by his fried Jim Campbell. Lyall spent a few days fighting around St Mere-Eglise with the 82nd Airborne, but managed to get back to Carentan 3 days later. In August 1944 as part of the Operation Market Garden Lyall was with E company. In September Lyall participated in the liberation of Endhoven and conitnued to fight through October and December through the Battle of the Bulge where Easy Company held strong defensive positions at Foy and Bastogne. Heavy fighting ensued as a large scale German attack commenced with heavy losses received. On March 15th 1945 the 101st airbirne receieved a Presidential Unit Citation, the first to a Division. Lyall would also go on to serve in Korea and Vietnam. |
 Corporal Frank Perconte *Signature Value : £15 Editions signed : 101st Airborne edition of 225 artist proofs 101st Airborne edition of 125 prints | Perconte, Frank (Corporal Frank Perconte) Frank Perconte was born on March 10th, 1917 in Indiana. His family came from Sicily and settled in the US. Frank Perconte grew up in a typical US-Italian neighborhood and started work at the Gary Steel Mill before being recruited to become a paratrooper At the age of 26 Frank Perconte joined the army and was in Easy Company of the 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. Frank went to Toccoa for training before heading overseas to Britain. On June 6th, D-Day 1944 Frank jumped into Normandy. He landed in Saint Marie du Mont. Frank Perconte was also at Bastogne. After the war he retired and got back to the steel mill for a short time and later became a mailman. Perconte is portrayed in the famous series Band of Brother and While the HBO miniseries was being made, Perconte and several other Easy Company members were flown to England, to watch the filming and to talk with the actors, who quizzed the veterans for details to enrich their performances. |
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