Talk:Lynn Compton

Name

In thinking about the article title, I'm wondering if it should be changed to Buck Compton, since I suspect that most people looking for information on him will only know of him from Band of Brothers and have no idea that his first name is Lynn. --Habap 15:47, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I like what you have. You have covered both bases by including both names. Looking at Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies) and other bios with nicknames, there is no hard rule. Most folks with unique names just have their names as the title, and all pseudonymns in the article. Folks with common names use the nickname as a differentiator. We should link this to the BoB article and consider adding his initial, D. Beanbatch 20:44, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I think some redirects (if you don't already have them) would do just fine. I just added a taxobox, but I'm also concerned about the cleanliness of the article, and I'm going to request (if I don't do it first) that the article be split into three categories: Early Life, During World War II, and After the War. Just to tidy it up and make it easier for people to find what they want/need. Martorius 18:25, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup

This is a poorly written article. An encyclopedia article cannot cite a dramatized miniseries in a biographical article. Someone please go through and clean this up.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Ocatecir (talk • contribs) 13:34, 13 January 2007

Why can't it? It is pertinent to his life, and factual. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.163.237.204 (talk) 02:50, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Nickname

It is not Wikipedia style to add a nickname in the first mention of a military officer or war veteran. That is standard only with mobsters, and perhaps not even then. His nickname is in the infobox, Thank you for cooperating on this. MajorStovall (talk) 16:31, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

American Defense Service Medal?

According to this medal's article it was discontinued in 1941, and Compton didn't enter service until 1943. Why would he have had one? --Ifrit (Talk) 23:14, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

He was 9n ROTC prior to 1943. Ima, not sure if this qualifies, but it is service and some ROTC cadets are contracted.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.73.40.226 (talk • contribs)

The Army Reserve Page says USAR includes ROTC. That doesn't really answer the question but it points us in the right direction.--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 00:47, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

It's in "About the Author" in Compton's book.--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 00:57, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

Just to add a late note to this thread, initial ROTC training is done as a civilian, but in the latter part cadets are actually enlisted into the USAR with the rank of private. And USAR personnel are entitled to all the same awards as active duty personnel. Cyberherbalist (talk) 20:19, 13 May 2023 (UTC)

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Baseball game

I think there's a disconnect in "In January 1945, Compton left E Company on an honorable discharge. He returned on VE Day for the company's annual baseball game." If Compton were honorably discharged, wouldn't he have been in or headed toward the States? E Company was deactivated in Europe. I don't have a copy of the memoir and the preview at Google books doesn't include page 152. He could have been discharged from a hospital...--Georgia Army Vet Contribs Talk 20:25, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

Discharge from a hospital is a very different thing from "honorable discharge", which, by definition, means separation from the service and a return to civilian status. You are correct though, that if he had been honorably discharged in January, 1945 he would not have been there for the baseball game. (Incidentally, the game is portrayed in the series as taking place on VJ Day, not VE Day. That's something else that needs fixing.) If I had to, I'd guess that he was either hospitalized the entire time after he was taken off the line, or that recuperated enough to leave the hospital and was reassigned in order to give him light duty befitting an officer, maybe a desk job. Obviously, that's just speculation. Beetfarm Louie (talk) 20:17, 18 September 2022 (UTC)

Inasmuch as it seems obvious that he wouldn't have been discharged for medical reasons in the middle of a war for mere trench foot -- he had been shot in the buttocks earlier, and stuck around -- I'm modifying the article to remove these statements. Cyberherbalist (talk) 20:24, 13 May 2023 (UTC)