Clifford Carwood Lipton, a native of Huntington, W.Va., joined the paratroopers as a private in August 1942. Parachuting behind Utah Beach in Normandy, France, in the first hours of the D-Day ...

A native of Huntington, W. Va., where his father ran a contracting business, Clifford Carwood Lipton was a star running back in high school. When Pearl Harbor was attacked, he was a 21-year-old ...