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Compton worked his way through Loyola University’s law school as a detective in the Los Angeles police department.

Compton’s character is played by Neal McDonough. In the 2001 Emmy Award-winning HBO miniseries, adapted from Ambrose’s book and co-produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, Mr. He was relieved from his position - officially for a severe case of trench foot - and spent the rest of the war away from combat. “He had stood up to everything the Germans had thrown at him,” Ambrose wrote in “Band of Brothers.” “But the sight of his platoon being decimated, of his. He ran to find medical treatment for the wounded before sitting down on a fallen tree and sobbing over the loss of his friends. Compton emerged from his foxhole to find the mangled bodies of a dozen of his men, their blood staining the snow. This was unprecedented gore.”Īfter one battle, Mr. Compton wrote in “Call of Duty.” “But this was different. Holed up in a forest near Bastogne, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge, the soldiers endured below-freezing temperatures and heavy snow while German forces splintered the trees with artillery fire. Compton rejoined Easy Company for the worst fighting the unit encountered in the war. Compton was directing his men in battle when he was shot in the buttocks. Compton received the Silver Star - the military’s third-highest medal for valor in combat.ĭuring Operation Market Garden, Mr. Compton “threw his grenade on a straight line - no arch - and it hit a German in the head as it exploded.”įor capturing the position and saving countless Allied lives, Mr. “The distance to the fleeing enemy was about the same as from home plate to second base,” historian Stephen Ambrose wrote in the 1992 book “Band of Brothers.” Mr. Compton’s baseball instincts took over when he saw German soldiers retreating. The battery was heavily fortified and protected by 50 German sentries. Richard “Dick” Winters led an assault on a German artillery emplacement near Brecourt Manor. Tracer bullets and anti­aircraft started to appear, red, blue and green tracers, spectacular and deadly against the night sky.”Īfter regrouping on the ground, Mr. “It looked surprisingly peaceful in spite of what I could only imagine lay ahead. “In the moonlight, I could see the Normandy coastline in the distance,” he wrote. “Buck” Compton, an Army paratrooper whose World War II service was portrayed in the book and HBO miniseries “Band of Brothers,” died Feb.

Compton recalled leaning out of a C-47 transport plane about 1 a.m. In his 2008 memoir, “Call of Duty” (written with Marcus Brotherton), Mr.

(UCLA lost 9-0 to the University of Georgia.) He was a catcher alongside future major leaguer Jackie Robinson and played guard on the Bruins’ line in the 1943 Rose Bowl. The soldiers, collectively known as Easy Company, participated in the June 6, 1944, invasion of Normandy, parachuted into Holland for the disastrous Operation Market Garden, and fought through frostbite and German artillery in the Battle of the Bulge.Īt 6 feet, 220 pounds, he had been a two-sport varsity athlete for the University of California at Los Angeles before he became an Army officer in 1943. Compton fought in some of the war’s fiercest battles as a first lieutenant with E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. Compton retired in 1990 as a judge on the California Courts of Appeal. He had complications from a heart attack, said his daughter Syndee Compton. Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan, died Feb. 26 at his home in Burlington, Wash.

“Buck” Compton, an Ar my paratrooper whose World War II service was portrayed in the book and HBO miniseries “Band of Brothers” and who later as a prosecutor secured a conviction of Robert F.