With Mercier was a just-arrived replacement from Company F. Without Speirs or Winters knowing it, the young officer – gung-ho and eager to prove himself – had attached himself to the patrol. As he followed Mercier up the north bank of the river, he stepped on a Schu mine and was killed. He had been on the front line barely twenty-four hours.
Source:
Ambrose, Stephen Edward. “The Patrol.” Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2004. 230-31. Print.
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