Coincidentally, he was the only married man in the squad. Sauveur, France.ĭuring an assault on the city of Baupte, France, Hartsock's ring finger is blown off at the tip and on top of this the stock of his BAR is shattered by a piece of shrapnel that took his finger. Doyle and the 82nd to capture and clear the strategically important city of St. Hartsock helps Baker push the remaining Germans out of Carentan, leads most of what was left of 3rd Platoon to clear out the unit's left flank during the defense of Hill 30, and finally helped Cpl. During the assault on Baupte, Hartsock's finger is blown off at the tip. Derrick McConnel) are folded into 2nd as the squad's Fire Team. In RtH30, the player has to defend the Hill 30, but in EiB, the player will take some of his men to attack from the rear, preventing further German reinforcements from entering the line. After Hartsock is promoted to 2nd Squad's leader the left overs from 1st Squad (Cpl. Hartsock was saved by Corporal Seamus Doyle from the 82nd Airborne Division, who quickly became one of his best friends during the Normandy invasion. The German was about to kill him until he was cut down by rifle fire. Hartsock's parachute got entangled in a tree and as he dangled in mid-air a German soldier came across him. Hartsock is now the protagonist of this game, the player can now control and experience Hartsock's story, although the timeline in almost the same as the first game. During his drop on D-Day, Hartsock's leg bag, which held his M1A1 Carbine was ripped from his leg, so he was unarmed when he touched down in France. Most notably, Hartsock helped Baker secure "Objective XYZ" and the town of Vierville, paved the way for glider reinforcements, led his fire team through Purple Heart Lane, Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cole's charge, and the Battle of Carentan, and finally helped with the frantic and bloody defense of Hill 30.įollowing the defense of Hill 30, Hartsock was promoted to Sergeant and became the Squad Leader of 2nd Squad. On June 6 1944, Corporal Hartsock and his squad were paradropped behind enemy lines in Normandy.ĭuring Road to Hill 30, Hartsock followed Sergeant Matt Baker through some of the bloodiest battles in the early days of the invasion.
At the end of Road to Hill 30 he is promoted to Sergeant, and is to lead 2nd Squad. For most of the game, he fights alongside Baker in all of the missions they go on. He joins Baker shortly after Silence the Guns mission, and eventually finds his team and leads it. Hartsock is first seen in the morning of the invasion. At this time Hartsock was a Corporal and led 3rd Squad's Fire Team. He joined the 101st Airborne Division and was eventually deployed to England with the rest of his unit to train for the invasion of Normandy. He wanted to get himself and his men back to their families again. It was only once the war started and his friends started to die, he regretted leaving home in such a fragile state. So he signed up the toughest outfit he could find - the paratroopers. All he wanted to do was to protect his country and his family. It was from Erma that he became not only a more 'peaceful man, but God-fearing too.'Įmma did her best to calm him down and she did an admirable job.
He married a woman named Erma when they were both 21 and had a daughter with her just before being sent to basic training. He got alot of overnight arrests for his bar fights. As a youth, he was wild and rebellious and gained a large scar during a bar fight with what he describes as "an angry lumberjack". Before the war, he worked on a ranch in Wyoming and has hunted all his life.
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