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Trask is a Machine Gunner, and one of the Ramelle paratroopers.

Biography

Trask was first seen in Ramelle, when Captain John H. Miller and his men came looking for PFC James Francis Ryan, who lost all of his brothers. Ryan refuses to leave, so Miller and his men stay to help. Trask then shows Miller his Machine Gun, and other supplies, and Mellish decides to replace Trask as Assistant Gunner (Corporal Henderson is the gunner), and Trask and Wilson decide to take positions inside a building, with a couple of flaming bottles. He then participates in the Battle at Ramelle. During the battle, he and Wilson then drop flaming bott

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les into a Marder III, setting the crewmen on fire. He and Wilson then shoot and kill many Germans from their building with their M1 Garands. He then retreats to the Alamo. On his way, he beats off a German with his helmet and rifle, but he is then beaten down by a Waffen-SS soldier, injuring him severly. He most likely survived from his wounds afterwards.

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