BOB Characters

Dick Winters

• takes over Easy Company after Sobel

• Well-respected and even-tempered

• Offered a job by Nixon in New Jersey

Lewis Nixon

• Winter’s bestie

• Second lieutenant of Easy Company

• Reliance on alcohol

• Offeres Winters a job in New Jersey for after the war

Herbert Sobel

• initial leader of Easy Company, then got “relocated” because he sucked

Bill Guarnere

• separated from company during D-Day parachute drop

• Found out brother was dead with a letter

• Lost his right leg while trying to drag Toye to safety in Holland

Joe Toye

• Lost his right leg in Bastogne when caught out during an air strike

• Made his first combat jump on D-Day as part of the Allied invasion of France

Donald Malarkey

• Watched POWs get shot by Spiers

• fought in the Invasion of Normandy

• Good humored and cheerful

Ronald Spiers

• gruesome guy; was kind to German POWs then shot them in the head

• Many stories about him

• Joins Easy Company during capture of Foy, cool under pressure

Bull Randleman

• Goes missing in Holland → waits it out in Nazi territory and gets saved

• Operation Market-Garden, injured in the shoulder during a tank explosion.

• One of the best paratroopers the company had ever seen

Buck Compton

• Second battalion assistant platoon leader

• Shot in the butt during Operation Market Garden and had a hard time recovering

• Also affected by Easy Company’s rough days in Bastogne

Carwood Lipton

• winters chose Lipton to be Easy Company first commander

• Shellshocked, bleeding check, hand, and groin by shrapnel in the town of Carentan

Norman Dike

• not a good leader (can’t make good decisions)

• commander of Easy Company during the Battle of the Bulge in Bastogne, Belgium

Renée LeMaire

• “Angel of Bastogne” volunteer nurse

• Saved many soldiers and people when Germany bombs Bastogne

Eugene “Doc” Roe

• medical soldier

• Tight with Renée LeMaire

• Never spoke a word about the war after, so all of his stories come from other people

Joe Liebgott

• Jew

• Wants got get justice, so he finds a guard from concentration camp and has him shot