He Ain’t Heavy. He’s My Brother

one of my favorite moe moments (moements if you will) is when they're running currahee and he's off to the side bc he's just so goddamn tall and lanky

moe but it’s behind the scenes

Staff Sergeant James ‘Moe’ Alley Jr. volunteered for paratroopers in1942 and was sent to Camp Toccoa, Georgia. On the way up Currahee, Alley once suggested to comrade Dewitt Lowrey that they could sit down to wait and rejoin the company when it went back down. Major William Boyle spotted them and made the two go up the hill, came down and ran two more hills before lettng them go.

During D-Day Moe was ready to jump and kicked his left leg and although his body went out, his upper torso remained in the plane, as he hung there, Paul Rogers grabbed him and launched him out of the bird. Moe landed on a glass encrusted fence, he climbed off and proceeded to assemble his M1. 

On October 5, 1944, during a patrol mission in Holland, they ran into Germans and a grenade was threw at them. Lesniewski shoved him and called a warning, Alley turned his body but was blown to the ground and got 32 wounds in his body.In 1994, when he went to the hospital, pieces of shrapnel from the blast could still be found in his body. Alley spent two months in the hospital before going AWOL, selling his German luger for money and going to Paris. There he found Richard Winters, who helped him arrange transportation to return to Easy Company on December 15, 1944, a few days before the 101st Airborne was sent to Bastogne.

In Noville Alley and Shames walked right up to a German tank mistakenly thinking it was US, the German started shooting at them and both dove into different buildings. Moe remembers breaking out hysterically laughing when they found Shames in an old mattress  tangled up in the springs and moaning.

While in Austria, according to Captain Ronald Speirs, Alley was busted because he got drunk, again. He was discharged in 1945 with three Purple Heart’s and a Bronze Star.

After the war he moved to Washington, became a general contractor, remodelling and building homes and commercial buildings. Alley married Elizabeth Riley in 1975 and they had three children; he died at the Clayton House on March 14, 2008.

“Alley was a bundle of energy but it was sometimes like the energy of a firecracker, prone to blow up his face.” Don Malarkey

Some pictures of Moe Alley. One was taken during bootcamp and the other during the war.

november? WRONG it’s moe-vember!!!

WW2 Magazine Interview 2001

From Smokey Gordon's Interview.

Elation 

it’s moe alley monday

Crossroads Early Script- Moe Alley runs into Dick Winters in Paris

Band of Brothers screencaps/edits (331/?)

James "Moe" Alley

March 14 2008: Last jump

Moe Alley // Open Your Arms

A little edit I just threw together...It would've been longer if they gave him MORE SCREEN TIME

made these yesterday night and then promptly forgot about them until now

Pvt. Alley

big beautiful brown eyes late entries that i forgot

Jim Alley got hit thirty-two times. In 1994 he went to the hospital again, even this late in life, and they still found a piece of shrapnel in his body.

~ Joe Lesniewski