Poster Autographed by 3 Band of Brothers 101st Airborne McClung Tipper & Mampre For Sale

Autographed "Band of Brothers" Movie PosterAUTOGRAPHS: Hand signed by "Band of Brothers" 101st Airborne, 506th P.I.R. "Easy Company" veterans: Ed Tipper, Earl McClung, and medic Al Mampre. Signed in black marker.EDITION:Open Edition. Includes a Certificate of Authenticity.SIZE:11" x 17"SHIPPING:Ships rolled in a tubeSIGNER BIOGRAPHIES:
EARL MCCLUNGEarl was born on April 27, 1923 at the Colville Indian Reservation in Inchelium, Washington. While in his senior year of high school, on Feb 15, 1943, McClung was drafted into the U.S. Army. He underwent infantry basic training at Camp Walters, Texas, and volunteered for Airborne training at Fort Benning, Georgia.
McClung joined Company E, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, at Fort Bragg, North Carolina before shipping out to England. He participated in all of 101st Airborne Division's major campaigns in the European Theatre of Operations. He received two Bronze Star awards for valor and the Purple Heart for being wounded in the line of duty.
McClung left the service in 1947 and worked for the Postal Service, for 17 years. He then worked for 13-years as a game warden on the Collvile Indian Reservation, a post from which he retired in 1988.
ED TIPPEREd was born August 3, l921, in Detroit. When Pearl Harbor was bombed and war declared, Ed tried to enlist in the Marines, but was rejected because his teeth did not bite together perfectly. Instead, Ed enlisted in the Army Paratroops and in August l942 became a founding member of Easy Company as it was formed in Toccoa, Georgia. Ed jumped with Easy Company into Normandy on D-Day.
Ed fought a short, but intensive war before he was badly wounded by mortar fire in the battle for Carentan, France. Ed spent a year in Army hospitals and recovered almost completely except for his destroyed right eye.
After the war, Ed graduated from University of Michigan in l949 then spent more than 30 years teaching high school in Iowa and Colorado. In his spare time, Ed bought, renovated, and operated apartment buildings, before retiring in l979.
AL MAMPRE
Staff Sergeant Albert Mampre was born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1922. He enlisted in the Army during 1942 and volunteered for the paratroopers.

He was assigned to Easy Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne as a medic at Toccoa, Georgia. Prior to D-Day, Mampre developed a serious infection and was sent to the hospital, thus missing that jump.

He rejoined Easy Company in time for Operation Market Garden, his first combat jump. Soon after, Easy Company Lieutenant Bob Brewer was shot by a sniper outside of Eindhoven. Mampre immediately jumped to his aid and while providing medical assistance to Brewer, was also shot by the sniper, through the leg. This incident was depicted in "Band of Brothers" during Episode 4, "Replacements."

With the assistance of several Dutch citizens, both Mampre and Brewer were evacuated to an aid station. After several weeks of recovery, Mampre rejoined Easy Company in Mourmelon, France, in time to accompany them into Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge.

Towards the end of the war, Mampre was reassigned as a medic to regimental headquarters and continued to serve in this role during the 101st Airborne's time in Berchtesgaden and later in Austria.

Mampre returned home in September 1945 and married his wife, Virginia, that November. He went on to study psychology at the University of Chicago and worked as a psychologist until retiring in the 1970s.
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