Lt. Col. Womack had no issue in recommending that two privates in 1stPlatoon be discharged, one for stealing mail and the other for huffing canned air, but Santoro skated by. At that point, there were still guys who were being actively assaulted, sexually. Becoming a Find a Grave member is fast, easy and FREE. The morale of his former platoon was devastated. Floyd W. Craver died in Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA on the 6th of July 1987 (aged 65) when he was struck by a truck while riding a moped. Craver's own luger was still in his holster. En route he heard a shot from the direction taken by Craver. When Lipton prompts him to get a move on, White continues to ignore the order, and Lipton relents and leaves him there. One prisoner is badly injured during the attack and the patrol leaves him behind on the bank of the river. When asked why Santoro was not yanked out of the platoon and at least moved to the battalion staff, Mason was at a loss as well. Doctors were secured from a nearby German hospital, and Grant was removed to the hospital. Yep a good read. I feel the burden for the lower enlisted guys. By virtue of being a miniseries rather than a film, with its story told over 10 episodes, Band of Brothers is able to follow the 101st Airborne paratroopers of Easy Company from their early days of training all the way through to the end of the war. The intensity of the combat that 1st Platoon was in was too much for him, so he boarded a helicopter and flew to the battalion headquarters, where he rode out the rest of the deployment behind a desk. Cobb actually got drunk after a "daytime scrounging mission" with another private, during which they were shot at by Germans and the other trooper got hit in the knee. The other car was still there and the occupant was examined by a medic and found.to be dead as a result of four or five shots through the body and one shot through the head. And that he was tired of living in fear, I guess, is the best way to put it, of being groped on a daily basis. Oops, something didn't work. [2], Shortly after midnight Craver was apprehended near the hospital about four or five hundred yards from the scene of the shooting, allegedly attempting to rape a local girl. They were also right smack in the middle of one of the heaviest enemy infestations in all of Afghanistan. Band of Brothers: Sex crimes and cover-up in the 101st Airborne Everybody knew he was gay and everyone was scared of him. Santoro was pressing a private first class under the lieutenant colonel and sergeant major to have a sexual affair, making sexually suggestive comments. During World War II he was a Private with I Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division. An American truck came along at this time and slowed down or stopped when Craver called for help, but when the British major said that he was helping the truck started on again. During the thirty or forty minutes they were in the farmhouse Craver appeared to be normal except for being a little drunk. It was their opinion that the accused was a dope addict, and this opinion was corroborated by statements of the accused who told them that he had smoked several Cannabis (drug)|marihuana cigarettes on the morning of 27 May 1945. All photos appear on this tab and here you can update the sort order of photos on memorials you manage. Genealogy profile for Floyd W. Craver Genealogy for Floyd W. Craver (1893 - d.) family tree on Geni, with over 230 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. There is 1 volunteer for this cemetery. Barnes was also a sergeant, but was outranked by one pay grade because Santoro was a staff sergeant. Following George Floyd's death, people globally took to social media to express their anger and pain over the death of an unarmed black man by police.

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