Wayne Sisk
| Wayne A. Sisk Sr. | |
|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | Skinny |
| Born |
March 4, 1922 Herndon, West Virginia, United States |
| Died | July 13, 1999 (aged 77) Charleston, West Virginia, United States |
| Allegiance |
 United States
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| Service/branch | United States Army |
| Years of service | 1942-1945 |
| Rank |
 Sergeant
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| Unit |
 Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division
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| Battles/wars | |
| Awards | |
| Relations | -Henry Lee Sisk (father) -Nettie Monk Sisk (mother) -Louise Sisk (wife) -Sharon Sisk Branson (daughter) -Delcie Sisk Young (daughter) |
Sergeant Wayne "Skinny" Sisk (4 March 1922 – 13 July 1999) was a non-commissioned officer with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army during World War II. He was one of the original 140 Toccoa men of Easy Company. Sisk was portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers by Philip Barantini.
Sisk was born on 4 March 1922 in Herndon, West Virginia.
Sisk enlisted and volunteered for paratroopers and was sent to Toccoa, Georgia for training, then assigned to Easy Company. Sisk, along with Frank Perconte, Herman Hanson and Carwood Lipton, were the four first soldiers in Easy Company.
Sisk made his first combat jump into Normandy on D-Day, on Private Walter "Smokey" Gordon's plane. He brought laughter and broke the tension on the plane by calling out "Does anybody here want to buy a good watch?" Sisk also fought with his unit in Operation Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge, the latter where he sustained shrapnel wounds to a leg during shelling by German forces. Sisk's wounds were treated and he eventually reunited with his unit.
While on occupation duty in Kaprun, Captain Ronald Speirs ordered First Sergeant Lynch to take Sisk, Don Moone and Joseph Liebgott to find and to kill a Nazi officer hiding in a farm nearby. The Nazi was found and shot twice by Liebgott, but was not killed. After Moone refused to shoot, Sisk shot the Nazi dead. The incident was depicted in the Band of Brothers miniseries, but with David Kenyon Webster in place of Moone.
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