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Staff Sergeant Joseph D. Toye (March 14, 1919 – September 3, 1995) [2] was an American soldier with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division during World War II. Toye was portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers by Kirk Acevedo.
Staff Sergeant Joseph John "Joe" Toye was an American NCO in Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment in the 101st Airborne Division during World War II. Joe Toye was born in Hughestown, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, on March 14, 1919, to Peter Toye, and Beatrice McTighue...
Nov 6, 2023 · In Band of Brothers, Compton leaves the front line after seeing his friends Joe Toye and Bill Guarnere get caught in the artillery shelling that left both of them amputees. In his memoir, Call of Duty , Compton praised Band of Brothers for using McDonough's portrayal of him to depict the shell shock that many soldiers were afflicted by in the war.
May 25, 2019 · Toye was wounded by artillery in Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge. He earned the last three of his four Purple Hearts there. During the battle, Toye lost his right leg. The scene was played out in "Band of Brothers," which originally aired on HBO in 2001.
Band of Brothers is a 2001 American war drama miniseries based on historian Stephen E. Ambrose's 1992 non-fiction book of the same name. It was created by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, who also served as executive producers, and who had collaborated on the 1998 World War II film Saving Private Ryan.
Kirk Acevedo talks to us about playing Joe Toye in Band of Brothers and what it meant to portray him in Band of Brothers.#bandofbrothers #wehappyfew506 #acto...
Joseph Toye joined Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, to fight in World War II. He made his first combat jump on D-Day of Operation Overlord, as part of the Allied invasion of France.
