 Clifford Carwood "Lip" Lipton (January 30, 1920 - December 16, 2001) was a United States Army officer in the 101st Airborne Division, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion, Easy Company. Carwood joined the Army in 1942 as a Private. On the battle fields of Europe he was promoted to Company First Sergeant and ultimately was given a battlefield commission to Second Lieutenant. He said "it was the greatest honor ever awarded" to him. More...
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Snow drifts softly through the trees, dusting the soldiers’ uniforms as
they move forward, their M-1s, carbines, and Tommy guns at the ready.
Then 1st Sgt. Carwood Lipton speaks, his tone indifferent yet
determined, revealing, finally, that these are the desperate days of
World War II, and that Easy Company, battle-weary but unbroken, has
been holding the line around Bastogne for more than a month.
“That’s me speaking on the voice-over,” says the real Carwood Lipton,
now a Southern Pines retiree, as he watches the DreamWorks HBO video.
“Or that’s supposed to be me. It’s really Donny Wahlberg playing me
back then. But they’ve done a pretty good job. We would have attacked
just that way — spread out so that we were ready to hit the ground if
we were fired on.” More...
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