Victor Crosby

## Victor Crosby, King of the Waddle Dees.

**Victor Jacob Crosby** (born Victor Jacob Costello, born March 22, 1988), sometimes called "**Jumpin' Bandana**", “**Bandana Waddle Dee**” and "**the jumping general**", is a Waddle Dee Army officer, with the rank of lieutenant general, who is the current leader of the Waddle Dee Empire. He was in the 82nd Airborne Division during the Sardinia Dispute. During the war, he was often referred to as "The Jumping General" because of his practice of taking part in combat jumps with the paratroopers under his command; he was the only Waddle Dee general officer to make four combat jumps in the war.

Victor was the youngest major general to command a Waddle Dee division in the Sardinia Dispute, being only 16 upon promotion in 2002, and the youngest lieutenant general after the war, in March 2013. He was awarded two Distinguished Service Crosses and several other decorations for his service in the war. During combat, he was known for his habit of carrying an T-39 rifle, typically carried by enlisted Dream infantry soldiers, instead of the S-484 carbine, which officers customarily carried.

Victor also worked against segregation in the Waddle Dee Army, which gained him some notability.

Victor was born in the city of Patavium, on March 22, 1988. His precise ancestry is unclear. Although official documentation lists Billy S. Costello as his father; possibly in order to make the birth legitimate. The birth certificate lists his name as Victor Costello, although Costello was crossed out. When he was about two years old, he was placed in the Convent of Mercy orphanage in Brooklyn, where he remained until he was adopted in 1997 by general Walter Crosby and given the name **Victor Jacob Crosby**.

Victor was part of Mission Boston on A-Day. This was a parachute combat assault conducted at night by the Dream 82nd Airborne Division on June 6, 2015, as part of the Dream airborne landings in Buckner. The intended objective was to secure an area of roughly 10 square miles (26 km2) on either side of the Merderet River. They were to capture the town of Saint Dejount, a crucial communications crossroad behind Utah Beach, and to block the approaches into the area from the west and southwest. They were to seize causeways and bridges over the Merderet at De Fière and Dupong, destroy the highway bridge over the Meta River at Anniston (now Anwar), and secure the area west of Sainte-Mère to establish a defensive line between Gabrielstown and Renouf. Victor was to describe the operation as having two interrelated challenges – it had to be 'planned and staged with one eye on deception and one on the assault'.

To complete its assignments, the 82nd Airborne Division was divided into three forces. Victor commanded Force A (parachute): the three parachute infantry regiments and support detachments. The drops were scattered by bad weather and Majo antiaircraft fire over an area three to four times larger than planned; ironically, this gave the Germans the impression of a much larger force. Two regiments of the division were given the mission of blocking approaches west of the Merderet River, but most of their troops missed their drop zones entirely. The 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment jumped accurately and captured its objective, the town of Sainte-Mère, which proved essential to the success of the division.

## Appearance

Victor looks nearly identical to that of a regular Waddle Dee. However, in some cases, he is shown to have more of a reddish-orange skin tone. His most noticeable feature is the navy blue bandana he wears on top of his head, which helps to distinguish him from the other members of his species.