14 Facts About Edward Tipper

Edward Tipper was portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers by Bart Ruspoli.

Information about Edward Tipper was featured in the 2009 book We Who Are Alive and Remain.

The family moved back to Ireland when Edward Tipper was three years old, but they returned to the United States later.

Edward Tipper graduated from a Detroit school in 1939 and worked at a department store.

Edward Tipper was sent to Toccoa, Georgia, and was assigned to Easy Company for training under Captain Herbert Sobel.

Edward Tipper made his first combat jump into Normandy on D-Day, where he met with fellow Easy Company member Frank Mellet and some other paratroopers and engaged in a firefight with a German patrol.

Edward Tipper fought in Carentan: after clearing a house, a mortar shell exploded near him when he was standing in the doorway.

Edward Tipper was sent to a hospital in England, where his right eye was removed.

Edward Tipper was then sent back to the United States.

Edward Tipper was discharged in August 1945 after one year in army hospitals.

At first Edward Tipper needed to walk with a cane and wore an eyepatch.

Edward Tipper remembered how everybody wanted to do something to show support for the returning war veterans.

Edward Tipper attended the University of Michigan and completed his master's degree in English at the University of Northern Colorado, and became a teacher.

When Edward Tipper was sixty one, he met Rosy and they were married on 12 February 1983.