Webster quickly fled up the dike to get ammo. The pin on the grenade was still in place, unbeknownst to Webster. After numerous shouts from both men, Clancy took out a grenade and threw it right in Webster's foxhole. As Webster was their ammo bearer, Clancy and Mike yelled at him to bring more ammo, but Webster did not move out of his foxhole. Before he was wounded, his squad's machine gunners Mike Massaconi and Clancy Lyall were low on ammo.

Later in this campaign, he was wounded in the leg by machine gun fire during an attack in the no-man's land called 'the Island' (also referred to as 'The Crossroads'), near Arnhem, where the company was relocated after Operation Market Garden ended. He also jumped into the Netherlands in Operation Market Garden. On D-Day, Webster landed nearly alone and off-course in flooded fields behind Utah Beach, and was wounded a few days later. By most accounts, he did not like what he saw and had great disdain for Germany's audacity in creating the war. Webster originally trained with Fox Company, jumped on D-Day with Headquarters Company of the 2nd Battalion, then requested a transfer to Easy Company and served in the Company until discharged in 1945.įrom a wealthy and influential family, Webster could have arranged an officer's commission stateside, but he wanted to be a ' grunt' and thus be able to see and document the war from a foxhole. He used his middle name 'Kenyon' while addressing his family in his letters to home rather than his given name, David.

In 1942, he volunteered for the paratroopers before having a chance to finish his studies as an English literature major at Harvard University. Webster was born in New York and educated at The Taft School, Watertown, Connecticut.

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