Post-traumatic stress disorder can be a tricky thing.
For 1st Lt. Lynn âBuckâ CompÂton in the seventh episode of the TV miniseries Band of Brothers, almost nonstop aerial bombing on their position for several days near the end of the war led him to snap. Suffering from what was known then as war fatigue, he had to be removed from the battlefield and sent home.
His commanding officer at the time, Maj. Dick Winters, later would say the constant stress of war had led to Comptonâs and othersâ breaking points. Some of the soldiers of Easy Company would suffer from PTSD several years after.