Eugene 'Doc' Roe is portrayed by Shane Taylor in "Band of Brothers". Roe was the only medic to serve with Easy Company from their days at Camp Toccoa through to the end of WWII. Fellow soldiers recalled his bravery and his ability to reach wounded men in incredibly difficult situations, at times defying what seemed possible. In talking about Doc Roe, his fellow veterans often referred to him as an "angel". In Bill Guarnere's memoir that he wrote with Babe Heffron, titled "Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends", Guarnere summed up Roe by saying the following: "A treeburst exploded above our heads. I was hit. I fell next to Joe. I felt like I was on fire, like someone took a sizzling hot poker and was burning me. I thought I was dead. My right leg was blown off, and the snow was red from all the blood. I went from burning hot to freezing. Me and Joe lay there freezing in the snow, shivering, bleeding, both of us were full of shrapnel. He said, 'Jesus Christ, what the hell do I have to do to die?!' It was Joe’s fifth time hit. Lipton, Malarkey, and Babe came running over to help, I was half out of it. Doc Roe was right there, trying to patch us up. Without him, we wouldn’t be alive. Roe was the best medic we ever had. He was born to be a medic. You could always depend on him. You hollered, 'Medic!' he was right there come hell or high water, he knew what he was doing. He was compassionate, took care of you mentally, physically, every way. They put me on a stretcher before Joe, I said, 'I told you I’d beat you back to the States,' and then I passed out." #bandofbrothers #ww2 #easycompany #WWII