MOOSE MEETS ED TIPPER.
P.F.C. EDWARD TIPPER, US ARMY 101st DIVISION, 506th P.I.R. ' EASY COMPANY', D-DAY VETERAN, MEMBER OF THE BAND OF BROTHERS.
Quote... ' After clearing the house ( in Carentan, Normandy, France ) as Tipper was passing out the front door, " A locomotive hit me, driving me far back inside the house. I heard no noise, felt no pain, and was somehow unsteadily standing and in possession of my M-1."
Lt. Welsh came up and got some morphine into Tipper, who insisted that he could walk. That was nonsense, both his legs were broken, and he had a serious head wound. Ed was half dragged into the street, where " I remember lying at the base of a wall with explosions in the street and shrapnel zinging against the wall above my head." ( Stephen E. Ambrose, ' Band of Brothers'.)
