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| rdfs:comment | - First Lieutenant Clifford Carwood Lipton (January 30, 1920 - December 16, 2001) was a commissioned officer with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division during World War II. Lipton was portrayed by Donnie Wahlberg in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. On the battlefields of Europe he was promoted to Company First Sergeant and ultimately was awarded a battlefield commission to Second Lieutenant. He said "it was the greatest honor ever awarded" to him. He eventually earned a promotion to First Lieutenant before leaving the Army. Lipton's life story was featured in the 2010 book A Company of Heroes: Personal Memories about the Real Band of Brothers and the Legacy They Left Us.
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| Unit | - Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division
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| death place | - Southern Pines, North Carolina
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| Caption | - First Lieutenant Carwood Lipton in Dress Uniform
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| Ribbon | - Bronze Star ribbon.svg
- European-African-Middle_Eastern_Campaign_ribbon.svg
- Presidential_Unit_Citation_ribbon.svg
- Purple_Heart_BAR.svg
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| Awards | - *Bronze Star 1 OLC
*Purple Heart 2 OLC
*Presidential Unit Citation 1 OLC
*Army Good Conduct Medal
*American Campaign Medal
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| Battles | - World War II
*Battle of Normandy
*Operation Market Garden
*Battle of the Bulge
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| abstract | - First Lieutenant Clifford Carwood Lipton (January 30, 1920 - December 16, 2001) was a commissioned officer with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division during World War II. Lipton was portrayed by Donnie Wahlberg in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. On the battlefields of Europe he was promoted to Company First Sergeant and ultimately was awarded a battlefield commission to Second Lieutenant. He said "it was the greatest honor ever awarded" to him. He eventually earned a promotion to First Lieutenant before leaving the Army. Lipton's life story was featured in the 2010 book A Company of Heroes: Personal Memories about the Real Band of Brothers and the Legacy They Left Us.
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