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Edward J. Tipper Jr.

1921–2017

Private First Class

U.S. Army; E Company (“Easy Company”), 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division; Normandy / Carentan, June 1944

Documented decorations

Six days after the Normandy drop, Edward J. Tipper Jr. was clearing a house in Carentan when a mortar round broke both legs, took his right eye, and left him with shrapnel wounds. The Department of Veterans Affairs’ #VeteranOfTheDay profile names a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart for that Easy Company service. This decorations page records those two types from that VA list and will not invent devices the paragraph does not carry.

Born in Detroit in August 1921, Tipper had tried the Marines first, then enlisted as a paratrooper with the 506th. After a year in Army hospitals he used the G.I. Bill, taught English for nearly three decades in Colorado, and lived to ninety-five. He died 1 February 2017 and is interred at Fort Logan National Cemetery. The Bronze Star and Purple Heart are the published decoration names. Teaching years are public fact. They are not printed here as a medal.

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