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Clifford Carwood Lipton
First Lieutenant, U.S. Army
Clifford Carwood Lipton was born on 30 January 1920 in Huntington, WV.
Lipton's father was killed in an automobile accident when he was ten. His mother was involved in the same accident and was paralyzed. Since Carwood was the eldest child, she told him to be the "man of the family." After completing one year at Huntington's Marshall University, he left school due to financial troubles at home and went to work in war-related production. After reading an article in Life Magazine on the difficulty of paratrooper training, and how the airborne was one of the most highly-trained branches of the Army, Lipton enlisted and joined the paratroops on 15 August 1942 at Fort Thomas (Newport), KY.
Military Service
Lipton shot through the ranks of the company eventually becoming company First Sergeant after the Acting Company First Sergeant, James Diel, was given a battlefield commission and transferred within the 506th PIR. Lipton was always keeping the men's spirits high, and pushed them to their full potentials. This was reco
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C. Carwood Lipton
Biography
Nickname:Lip
Place of birth: Huntington, West Virginia
Years of service: 1942-1945
Rank: Lieutenant
Unit:Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 101st Airborne Division, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment
Awards:
Purple Heart (3OLC)
Bronze Star (2OLC)
World War II Victory Medal
Presidential Unit Citation (2OLC)
Orange Lanyard of the Royal Netherlands Army
Other work:Glass-making Executive
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.
Early life
Carwood was born and raised in Huntington, West Virginia. His father died in an automobile accident when he was ten, and he was depended on by his mother, as the eldest to be the
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Carwood Lipton
WWII American army officer (1920–2001)
Clifford Carwood Lipton (30 January 1920 – 16 December 2001)[1] was a commissioned officer with Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, during World War II.
On the battlefields of Europe, he was promoted to company first sergeant and was awarded a battlefield commission to second lieutenant. He has said "it was the greatest honor ever awarded" to him. He eventually earned a promotion to first lieutenant before leaving the army.
He was featured in the 2010 book A Company of Heroes: Personal Memories about the Real Band of Brothers and the Legacy They Left Us,[2] and portrayed by Donnie Wahlberg in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers.
Early life
Carwood Lipton was born and raised in Huntington, West Virginia. When he was aged 10, his father was killed and his mother paralyzed in an automobile accident.[3] Since Carwood was the eldest child, she told him to be the "man of the family".[3] After completing one year at Marshall Col
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