1st Lieutenant Lynn “Buck” Compton, Easy Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division

EASY COMPANY OFFICER

Yesterday I received a wonderful gift from @adammakos and @valorstudiosinc and just had to make a post about it. I received a copy of Buck Compton’s memoir “Call of Duty: My Life Before, During, and After ‘Band of Brothers’” signed by the author himself.

What an incredible piece of history, handled by a famed member and officer of Easy Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division who just recently lost their last member from WWII - making it all the more poignant. Can’t thank them enough.

Compton helped lead Easy Company from D-Day through the Battle of the Bulge before being sent behind the lines for “combat fatigue” after watching two of his best friends get blown apart during an artillery bombardment outside of Foy in early January, 1945. He was awarded the Silver Star for gallantry during the fight for Brecourt Manor and her guns in June, 1944.

After the war, 'Buck' Compton was a California Court of Appeal judge who served as the lead prosecutor in Sirhan Sirhan's trial for the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. Buck would pass away in 2012 but, his memory lives on.

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