What he found was a decimated regiment, exhausted, weary and bitter over his absence and the loss of friends.
While recuperating back in England, Webster missed the Battle of the Bulge fighting and rejoined his unit in February, 1945 after being formally released by the hospital. Webster quickly fled up the dike to get ammo. The pin on the grenade was still in place, unbeknownst to Webster. After numerous shouts from both men, Clancy took out a grenade and threw it right in Webster's foxhole. As Webster was their ammo bearer, Clancy and Mike yelled at him to bring more ammo, but Webster did not move out of his foxhole. Before he was wounded, his squad's machine gunners Mike Massaconi and Clancy Lyall were low on ammo. Later in this campaign, he was wounded in the leg by machine gun fire during an attack in the no-man's land called "the Island" (also referred to as "The Crossroads"), near Arnhem, where the company was relocated after Operation Market Garden ended. He also jumped into the Netherlands in Operation Market Garden. On D-Day, Webster landed nearly alone and off-course in flooded fields behind Utah Beach, and was wounded a few days later. By most accounts, he did not like what he saw and had great disdain for Germany's audacity in creating the war. Webster originally trained with Fox Company, jumped on D-Day with Headquarters Company of the 2nd Battalion, then requested a transfer to Easy Company.įrom a wealthy and influential family, Webster could have arranged an officer's commission stateside, but he wanted to be a "grunt" and thus be able to see and document the war from a foxhole. He was the focus for the episode The Last Patrol. He was an aspiring writer who left Harvard to enlist in the paratroops. Army's 101st Airborne Division during World War II after D-Day. He was originally trained in Fox Company but then requested to transfer in Easy Company 506th Regiment of the U.S.
Private First Class David Kenyon Webster was an American soldier, journalist, and author. Easy Company 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division
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