Claim: Donnie Wahlberg has acted in TV shows.

First Lieutenant Clifford Carwood Lipton -LRB- 30 January 1920 -- 16 December 2001 -RRB- was a commissioned officer with Easy Company , 2nd Battalion , 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment , in the 101st Airborne Division during World War II . Lipton was portrayed by Donnie Wahlberg in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers . On the battlefields of Europe , he was promoted to Company First Sergeant and ultimately was awarded a battlefield commission to Second Lieutenant . He said `` it was the greatest honor ever awarded '' to him . He eventually earned a promotion to First Lieutenant before leaving the Army . Lipton 's life story was featured in the 2010 book A Company of Heroes : Personal Memories about the Real Band of Brothers and the Legacy They Left Us .