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UWY-0001 Airborne Rivals Ed Pepping Easy Company 101st Autographed
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This item is listed for historical interest only. It is not for sale.
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Item #19702
This is a great boxed set "Airborne Rivals, Freidrich August & Ed Pepping" and autographed. The set was released in 2003 as an "A Weekend of Heroes
Convention Exclusive" The set is made up of action figures Friedrich August, German Fallschrimjager and Ed Pepping, 101st Airborne Medic, Easy Company 506th
Parachute Infantry Regiment and all their gear. The box has some edge
damage but is signed by Ed pepping on June 21, 2003. Pepping made his first
combat jump on D-Day into Normandy.
Pepping was originally assigned to Flight 66, but for some unknown reason he
switched seat with another medic, Earnest L. Oats. He therefore got off the plane right
before it took off. Flight 66 was
later shot down by German antiaircraft fire, and everyone on board, including
Easy Company Commander Thomas Meehan
III, were killed. Upon landing, he had a concussion and
cracked three vertebrae when his helmet hit his head, although he did not know
it at the time. He helped in
different aid stations to help with the wounded. Outside Beaumont, when Lieutenant Colonel Billy Turner was killed, the advance
of tanks stopped as Turner was at the front of the moving column. Pepping
helped to pull Turner out so the tank column could move again. He received the bronze star for his
action. Pepping was not able to join Easy Company in France, because he was
wounded in his leg. He was evacuated to a hospital, where his uniform,
equipment and medals were stolen. Pepping
went AWOL to rejoin Easy Company because a doctor would not let him out due to
his injury.
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