![]() ![]() He stayed with Easy Company all the way through the end of the war in Berchtesgaden. He survived Normandy and fought in Market Garden where on one recon patrol, he, Malarkey and Eugene Jackson, captured eight German soldiers.ĭuring the siege of Bastogne, Rod shared a foxhole in the Bois Jacques with Bill Guarnere and Malarkey. Mere Eglise and joined up with other troopers far from their DZs. On D-Day, Rod landed about three miles from Ste. ![]() Buck Compton in Easy Company's 2nd Platoon. ![]() He became a radioman, lugging the 60 pound radio in addition to his usual equipment and served under Lt. With the breakout of WWII, he volunteered for the airborne and was one of the original 140 members of Easy Company at Camp Toccoa. Rod Bain was born in Portland and grew up a ferry ride away from where his future buddy Don Malarkey lived. Non-limited, unnumbered, signed by Easy Company paratroopers Rod Bain, Earl McClung, and Ed Tipper. Shipping added in checkout // print size: 20" x 16" //ships rolled in a tube Want to know "who" signed which print edition? Click the EDITIONS tab above. Now, safely within the friendly lines behind Utah Beach, they relax by a memorial to the dead of World War I to reflect on where they’ve come and to prepare for where they’re headed. In their odyssey to rejoin Easy Company, the men have traveled the enemy-occupied countryside, stopping only to fight skirmishes at medieval farms and hedgerows. On June 7, 1944, a day after their scattered jump into Normandy, paratroopers of Easy Company, 506th P.I.R., 101st Airborne, pause in the newly liberated French village of Sainte-Marie-du-Mont. ![]()
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