Albert Blithe
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Private Albert Blithe was one of the Easy Company paratroopers featured in Episode 3 Carentan of the HBO Band of Brothers mini-series. In that episode, Blithe is first struck with a temporary case of hysterical blindness and then severely wounded in the neck. Fellow Easy Company Currahee veterans had thought that Blithe did not recover from his neck wound and had died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1948.
Private Blithe was actually wounded in the right shoulder. He recovered from his wounds, and attended the 1st Annual Reunion of the 101st Airborne Division Association. Before his military career ended in 1967, Albert Blithe had achieved the rank of Master Sergeant and had fought in the Korean War, completed over 600 parachute jumps, and was given a MAAG assignment in Taiwan
Blithe died in 1967 from kidney failure while on active duty in Germany, and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors.
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