In 1947 he joined the Air Force Reserve, serving in the Office of Special Investigations and eventually Judge Advocate General Corps before retiring as a lieutenant colonel in 1970. Just days later, Compton took ill and passed away on Feb. In early January, a few hundred people gathered in Burlington, Wash., to celebrate the 90th birthday of UCLA alumnus Lynn Buck Compton. In real life, while I was hollering for the medic, trying to figure out what to do, I remember two distinct thoughts: How are we going to help the wounded guys?…Maybe this is the time the Germans are really going to get us all.” A Bruin who excelled on the battlefield, on the playing field and in the courtroom. While studying at UCLA from 1939 to 1943, he lettered on the football and baseball teams. Compton was portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of. Buck Compton was born in Los Angeles in 1921.
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Compton wrote in his autobiography, “…although I was affected by the horrors of Bastogne, I do not believe I was clinically shell shocked, as the series portrays me. Lynn Davis Compton, known as Buck Compton, was an American jurist, police officer, and soldier. In January 1945, Compton left Easy Company for another assignment.Īccording to Band of Brothers, though ostensibly evacuated for severe trench foot, his transfer was due in part to combat fatigue, culminating when Compton witnessed two of his closest friends, Joe Toye and William Guarnere, being badly maimed by artillery fire resulting in each losing a leg.
After a partial recovery, he returned to Easy Company in time for the siege in the frozen Ardennes that became known as the Battle of the Bulge. The bullet traveled sideways, through one side of the buttocks and out the other side. Later in 1944, Compton was shot through the buttocks while participating in Operation Market Garden, the Allies’ ill-fated attempt to seize a number of bridges in the Netherlands and cross the Rhine River into Germany. During the battle, he threw a grenade, that was said to have no arc, and hit the German soldier on the back of the helmet. Episode two (“Day of Days”) of the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers depicts this assault.
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Compton was awarded the Silver Star for his action in disabling the guns. This official Band of Brothers movie poster, the first in a series of six autographed posters to be released by Valor Studios, is hand signed by Buck Compton, Don Malarkey, Earl McClung, Brad Freeman, Ed Tipper and first-time signer Al Mampre Because quantities are extremely limited, there is a limit of two per customer. Not only was he one of the heroes of the.
During the company’s action at Brécourt Manor, Compton and others, under the leadership of Lieutenant Richard Winters, assaulted a German battery of four 105 mm howitzers firing on Utah Beach, disabling the guns and routing the enemy. Preview Amazon By Marcus Brotherton, Lynn Compton, Buck Compton led an extraordinary life. The miniseries depicts a moment in the marshaling area at Uppottery when Winters disciplines Lieutenant Lynn ‘Buck’ Compton, a fellow officer. He worked for a while for Nixon Nitration Works, the family firm of his wartime friend Louis Nixon. In December 1943, Lynn Compton joined the Army and was assigned to E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment in the 101st Airborne Division prior to Operation Overlord. Army in 1945, Major Richard Winters returned to civilian life.
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