This copy of Ike's D-Day letter is printed on thick letterstock. It was signed by 18 Band of Brothers veterans at their 2005 reunion in San Antonio. The signatures are:

Wild Bill Guarnere

Forrest Guth

Frank Perconte

William Wingett

Rod Bain

Paul Rogers

Earl "One Lung" McClung   ****** See below for the story of how McClung got his nickname.

Philip Perugini

Jim Benton

Ed Tipper

Darrell "Shifty" Powers

Clancy Lyall

Father Leo Metz

James Alley

Henry "Hank" Zimmerman

Ralph Spina

Bill Maynard

Herb Suerth

The letter is also signed by Honorary Member Frank DeAngelis

Earl McClung was given the nickname "One Lung" shortly after Easy Company jumped into Normandy. Paul Rogers related the following to me at the 2006 reunion:

"We were resting in an orchard in Normandy, and Capt. Hester came up to a few of us. There was a .30 caliber Browning laying on the ground, and he asked us, "Who's going to carry that .30 cal?" None of us wanted to carry that heavy gun, so we looked around. Earl was asleep under a tree, so we pointed to him!

After he woke up we told him what Capt Hester said. Earl wasn't happy, and he wanted to know who "volunteered" him! So of course we had to rib him about it, and we kept saying, "Who hung the gun on One Lung McClung?!""

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