Joe Toye | A Coal Region soldier in the “Band of Brothers”

Joe Toye Photo and from Band of Brothers Jake Wynn Public Historian Coal Region

Hughestown, PA native Joe Toye enlisted days after Pearl Harbor, jumped into Europe with Easy Company, 506th PIR, and was gravely wounded in the Battle of the Bulge. He came home to Pennsylvania, built a life at Bethlehem Steel, and later was portrayed by Kirk Acevedo in HBO’s Band of Brothers. Read the full story.