Edward Boyce

*"Three months ago, I was cutting grass on my front yard. The mailman shows up with a letter from the army. Now I'm here, and no idea where I'm going to end up." ―*Edward Boyce to Chloe Laurent describing how the US military was integrated in the use of man power when Nazis were winning World War II.

Edward Boyce is the main protagonist of the 2018 live-action film Overlord. He is a former black paratrooper who was in a all black paratrooper called the 555th also known as the Triple Nickels. But his life changed forever in April, 1944 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave the order to desegregate the entire US Armed Forces during the unit he was assigned to was given an assignment to embark on a mission to destroy a Nazi jamming tower on June 5, 1944.

## Background

*"My Grandmother taught me, she was from Haiti, she moved to the states from Louisiana"* ―Boyce describing his family in 1944.

Boyce was born in Louisiana on May 2, 1921, as a third-generation Haitian-American. He is the grandson of a Haitian woman of immigrated to the United States and was a son of an unknown mother and soldier who fought in World War I. During his childhood living in the segregated Jim Crow South, he and his older brother Thomas Boyce wanted to become doctors and teachers to prove the white man but everything changed when both boys witnessed their father's lifeless body hanging in the poplar trees. It is believed that it was the KKK that was responsible. At the age of 12, Edward and his family were nearly burned inside of their house by the hands of Klan. He and his brother and grandmother made it out but his mother died from smoke in elation. This took a toll on him and hurt to help people.

In 1941, Boyce was working in school to become a veterinarian until the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. This when the chance where Edward can prove himself to stand against obsession, so Edward and Tommy join the United States Army on June 14, 1942. During his time as a soldier, Boyce joined the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion on December 20, 1943, and became a smoke jumper given the unprecedented and undeniably dangerous job of jumping into forests that were set on fire by the nation’s enemy at war. This was his best friend since boot camp Charlie Dawson who became a smokejumper two months after him, and Sergeant Ben Rensin. But everything changed in the Spring of 1944, everything changed when on Boyce day off when he was cutting grass when a mailman show up to his house in California with a letter from the army saying that President Roosevelt has desegregated the whole US military, and he along the rest of the 555th were reassigned to go to the United Kingdom to train with the 101st Airborne Division and 82nd Airborne Division to prepare for D-Day.

## Before Overlord

*"If it's for luck, you're gonna need more than that once we hit the ground and those Jerries start blastin'. It's nothin' like Basic... not when the real bullets are flyin'. And hell Boyce, you barely even made it outta Basic alive." ―*Tibbet to Boyce talking about their experiences together.

As the black paratroopers are getting to blend in along with white paratroopers. Boyce and Dawson met a cocky paratrooper Lyle Tibbet, Morton Chase an Army photographer, and Jacob Rosenfeld a Jewish paratrooper. During the first weeks of desegregation, Tibbet hated both men because of the color of their skin and both constantly ripped on them and bullied Boyce the most, Rosenfield on the other hand, he can understand what it feels like to be discriminated against daily and became friends with Boyce. Then one night inside of the Army barracks, a big mouse kept crapping on Rensins pillow, so Lipton and Rensin (Who was pointed out as leader of Little Groups of Paratroopers) ordered Boyce, Tibbet, and Rosenfield to go find the mouse and kill it. Boyce managed to catch the mouse in his jump boot and as he was about to kill the mouse, it reminded him of his home in Louisiana and let the mouse go and set it loose in a field. The next day, this resulted in the mouse crapping on Rensins pillow and Lipton made everybody run hills all night because of it.

## The lucky charm

During the week before D-Day, Boyce was in the middle of a shooting range when out of nowhere a bullet ricocheted and hit his chest, luckily the bullet hit his dog tags, and that was when he use the bullet as a way to prove that he is bulletproof and that he has a chance to make it through this war.

## Operation Overlord

On June 5th, 1944, the Allied forces launched their forces to prepare for Operation Overlord also known as D-Day, however Boyce along with this squad of 18 paratroopers are given a secret mission to take out a radio jamming tower located at the town center of the French village of CielBlanc. As the men prepare to jump behind enemy lines, Boyce scans to see the men, some of them that he used to be smokejumpers with and has been through so much to this point about proving the white man wrong. He also spotted Lewis Ford, a paratrooper that transferred to the 82nd Airborne and is an explosive expert for their mission. As the men talking to each other about what they are going to do when they get to Berlin before Rensin shows up to remind them what the mission is and says there are gonna be a hundred and twenty Allied troops fighting on their way to the beaches but they can't without air support if the radio tower isn't by 06:00 am.

## Jumping to Hell

By midnight the C-47 started to rumble, the paratroopers heard deep thuds and the crackle of tracer fire and the plane was heaving back and forth tossing the soldiers around. Rosenfeld noticed that they are getting close and worries that they will be landing at a German squad and knowing that the Nazis do to a guy who has the same name as him. Boyce assures him that nothing is gonna go wrong.

Rensin comes out of the cockpit of the C-47 and tells the men that it is just a "Kraut Hello" and tells them to sit tight until the light tells them to jump. The Navigator of the plane tells Rensin that they are taking too much flak but with quick thinking, Rensin tells them to break formation so they won't get hit by flak knowing that the paratroopers while a couple clicks south of their target. The C-47 suddenly descends 100 feet flak erupting all around as it yokes hard to the left into the clouds. This formation saved the men as the flak destroyed a plane beside them. He took the time to remark to his white paratroopers who had doubted him since day one that he was going to show them a good time. Dawson, unable to hold his dinner, threw up on the floor of the fuselage before bullets from the AA guns piece the floor of the C-47 and tore some men up like butter. This horrifies the men including Rensin and Ford because before the operation, this small group of paratroopers was giving more information about General Wilhelm Strasse although some men heard that the man was so intelligent that he upgraded the German Army weapons vehicles to be inferior to the Allies. This myth became a reality and everybody except Rensin and Ford started to panic, paratrooper Murphy was so scared that got out of his seat before he was pulverized and was dead before he hit the floor.

Rensin continues to tell everyone to sit down and tells them this is why they were given this mission. The red jump light above the cargo door pops on and that is when Rensin orders the men to stand up and hook up. As Boyce and the men scramble to their feet and hook their chute lines to the anchor cable running along the ceiling of the fuselage. Boyce is fifth from the door (Rosenfeld is fourth, Dawson, sixth, and Tibbet, second). Rosenfeld turns his head to Boyce and tells him that he will see on the ground but he tells him that he will be right behind him. As the light flashes green, the plane catches fire and then a huge eruption blows the cockpit door away sending it to a paratrooper's head decapitating him. The front of the C-47 is gone is nothing but a gutted, flaming mass of shredded steel, and half of the roof about the men is now a gaping hole. The anchor line renders useless. Some men fatally fall toward the back, burning themselves to death. In a desperate attempt to save what's left of his men, Rensin tells everybody to manually deploy, Ford quickly unhooks from the jump line and helps Rensin push paratroopers, Grunauer, then Tibbet, some of the surviving paratroopers manage to jump out of the aircraft after the signal goes green, Rosenfeld stumbles. Boyce crouches to help, but Ford is already rolling Rosenfeld out the door. He managed to grab Boyce; he struggles to compose himself; the whole situation overwhelms him in ways that it brought horrible memories of living in the South. Ford shoved him out in the open air into the airborne war zone falling fast. Boyce claws for his ripcord as he continues to tumble and sees the aircraft that he was on just disintegrated, but manages to yank the cord and the chute opens and jolts Boyce's fall.

## Hitting the ground

As Boyce braces himself for a thud, instead, a soggy splash. He was shocked, he's loaded with gear, tangled in his lines. He grabs his trench knife that he had since was a smokejumper, cuts the chute harness straps, then cuts his musette bag loose, drops his mines, and took off his helmet; he then swims up to the surface but his head breaches for half a second, under his chute. He gulps in a breach, then he sinks momentarily but his knife instantly pierces the fabric. He drags himself onto the river and secures his M1911 before running to the woods. On his way to find other paratroopers, possibly finding Rosenfeld, instead finds Rensin surrounded and taunted by German SS troops. Before attempting to attack and save him, Ford comes from behind Boyce to stop him. Both of the men witness the SS troops fire on Resin point blank, drilling his body with lead until he finally slumps over dead.

Ford explains that the mission must be carried out. They continue to walk deeper into the woods, where they hear people approaching, it's Tibbet, Chase, and Dawson and all of them share a moment of joy in their reunion. The men continue to advance across the field, hoping to find more paratroopers. Dawson shared with his comrades that he wanted to author a book about fighting on the front lines of the war and was thinking that when the war was over, he was going to be an author and Boyce said he would buy one. unfortunately, Dawson stepped on an advanced land mine created by Deathshead and was set off killing him instantly and leaving but a cloud of dirt and blood over the paratroopers. Boyce, disoriented, stands frozen in complete shock and realizes that even the mines that the Germans have are ten times deadlier and just staring at the black crater where Dawson was just what left was his leather journal Boyce found after the blast. As he gains consciousness Ford tells everybody to fix the bayonets and use their lay taps on the ground not so hard enough to set off a mine. So he used a bayoneted M1 Garand rifle and walked carefully to a safe spot. Survival is their utmost priority at the moment, but their mission is yet to be done.

## Reaching the Village

As the squad takes a break from walking, Tibbet and Chase stumble upon a dead animal carcass, which they find hard to identify. A distant noise catches Boyce's attention, so he signals to the men that something or someone might be nearby. They await the footsteps and meet a young French girl named Chloe Laurent. She runs in fear of the paratroopers, but they catch up and hold her at gunpoint, where she is forced to lead to CielBlanc. Boyce comforts her by saying that she will not get hurt, but she has no choice but to help the American paratroopers. All of them head to the village where the church is located, and at the entrance, Ford commands Boyce to keep an eye on Chloe while they check the premises.

The commotion wakes up Chloe’s neighbor, Mrs. Lesner, who reports her to the German SS guards for being out past curfew. The guards start to emerge, making Boyce hide and find a way to be out of their sight while they inspect Chloe, who manages to talk her way out. He waits in the shadows until it's clear, then hustles to join Ford along the slide wall. Tibbet asks Boyce if Chloe tipped him off, and answers him by saying that she definitely doesn't like the Germans any more than they do. Then Chloe responded in English that they are pigs and made sure the paratroopers weren't as well. Tibbet can't help but break into a huge smile at Boyce's expense and rip on him for being French.

She lets the group take refuge in her house while they carry out their mission. A quick tour of the home is given to the soldiers just in case they need to hide, but Tibbet hears a noise from a room upstairs, so he asks Chloe about it. According to her, her sick aunt lives with her and cuts the topic short. She also has a little brother named Paul, who she takes care of after the SS killed her parents in cold blood.  The paratroopers settle in the tiny attic, where they gather their weapons and explosives and optimize their plan. A woman’s scream interrupts their meeting; the commotion outside is caused by SS troopers that are revealed to be part of the SS paranormal Division that was executing one of the village residents for an unknown reason. Chloe then explains that the killings have become a norm in their village since the Germans have taken over. She warns the group that they cannot stay at her place because of frequent inspections, but Ford says that they only need four hours, so she agrees.

## The Grandmother

The group gets into an argument about delaying the mission, but to their surprise, Boyce initiates the advance. In Rensin's words, he reminds them that the planes cannot provide air support to the bases unless they take the tower down, and Ford for once agrees with him. However, Tibbet continues to racially discriminate and bully him, discouraging the poor guy that he is not built for battle. Then is when racial tension begins to go off and the two men are about to have a fistfight. Ford quickly deescalates the tension, and orders him to take Chase to go see if any other paratroopers have made it to the rally point.  The angry Tibbet gets interrupted by Paul, who playfully asks him to have a game of baseball. He gets more hot-headed, so Chloe explains that Paul thinks all Americans play baseball, but he walks away. Boyce makes his way downstairs after Ford orders him to.

On his way, he hears Chloe’s aunt coughing in the room across the hallway, so he checks and sees a disfigured woman. Her skin looks wholly burnt, and she looks terribly ill. Chloe explains since her aunt returned from the church, which is the base of the Germans, she has not spoken since. She suspects that multiple experiments were done on her, causing physical and mental trauma. Suddenly, Nazi patrol led by SS Hauptsturmführer Franz Wafner (The commanding officer of SS Division of CielBlanc) visits Chloe. Wafner sends his men away, and proceeds to coerce Chloe for sex, threatening to send her brother to the church to be "fixed." Boyce cannot ignore this and interrupts the Nazi officer. Ford is forced to follow suit and restrains Wafner, falsely accusing him of putting the mission at risk; he tells him to go get Tibbet and Chase.

## Seeing the Experiments

Through the woods, Boyce makes his way to a nearby entrance to wait for the perfect time to enter. He sees a truck full of people with disfigured bodies who are almost on the brink of death. A project that experiments on humans for warfare is orchestrated by Dr. Schmidt, the head of the experimentation on French civilians and dead German soldiers. He goes to the site to see the “failed tests” get burned using Flammenwerfer 35s flamethrowers. Confused about the intentions behind the experiments, Boyce goes on to conduct the mission and walks through the dark forest. A truck of German soldiers passes by, making him hide on the side of the road. Boyce encountered an early version of the Kampfhund dog that emerges from the dark and spots him with his super x-ray vision and starts growling at him; it eventually chases him, leaving him no choice but to enter the truck. Boyce climbs the truck only to find dead soldiers piled up, so he panics as he covers himself with a lifeless body on top. They arrive at the church, and two soldiers unload the truck. This bids Boyce some time to sneak out and make his way through the tower. Surrounded by the enemies, every step he takes is crucial, as one mistake could cost him his life. He arrives at an underground section of the church, which looks like a prison. He hears muffled noises of people bound in small cells and hides as two inspectors arrive. Curious about the eerie sound coming from the cell, he peeks at it and sees a human and creature hybrid. Boyce goes further into the experiment labs to get more answers about the questionable creatures. A body bag moves right above him, so he opens it and sees a person drenched in serum, who is barely alive. He then sees syringes laid on a table and gets one to bring a sample to Ford. He suspects that the red liquid serum is responsible for the disfiguration of the bodies that he saw. Not far from where he stands, he hears a voice asking for help; willing to find out, Boyce opens a curtain and sees a bodiless head asking for help. Horror fills his face because it seems too difficult to believe. He leaves and discovers that Rosenfeld is bound to a bed, which he tries to free but gets interrupted once German doctors arrive. He sees a dead soldier being injected with the serum, but it is ineffective, so they dispose of his body. Boyce pulls a massive needle out of Rosenfeld to save and free him. Both of them utilize a tomb to find their way out of the church, which they are successful at.

## Returning to the squad

*"Ford listen to me. They're doing experiments on them there. They are doing experiments on the villagers!!… Just her aunt. They're burning people with these flamethrowers, and they're still moving, the bodies... And they're pumping tar from the ground into these cocoon things... Nez was all cut to pieces... but not dead. I don't know how... he had wires hooked up to his head... hands.. they were still moving. Jesus, I found a girl and she doesn't have a body and she's still talking, and I saw Rosenfeld*. ―Boyce explains to Ford what he saw while he managed to get inside the church witness the experiments first hand.

They arrive at the house, where Boyce finally breaks down after holding his emotions inside the church and tells Ford. Ford struggles to understand the words he is saying and realizes that Boyce has shifted his attention from the mission to the experiments. He shows Ford the serum, and they ask Wafner about it, but he does not disclose any helpful information, even as Ford tortures him. Wafner is in a helpless situation, but he remains loyal to his roots, making Ford more aggressive. Boyce tries to stop him, but he gets hurt in the process, making him walk out of the room.

## The Horror

As the squad prepares to attack the church, Chase checks on Wafner, who attempts to escape and fatally shoots him after acting unconscious. Still, with a sack over his head, he blindly shoots around, but he is stopped after the group comes up. Boyce isn't holding his own gun, can only charge Wafner, tackling to the floor punching that hood off his head, then wrestling away before Tibbet managed to help him to subdued Wafner. Before losing his final breath, Chase asks for his camera, and all of them dramatically witness his death.

Boyce gets into the idea of injecting the serum into Chase, thinking that it would save him. In a matter of minutes, Chase gets up and is in prime condition. He even pokes his bullet wounds and is numb from the pain. Additionally, he gets stronger after the injection, which confuses everyone in the room. After some time, Chase mutates; his body slowly disfigures, and he turns violent. His eyes turn red as if he is about to transfer into something before Ford shoots him several times. Wafner then reveals that he and his men's mission was in order to advance their Nazi empire, they were sent to Cielblanc by Deathshead to develop a virus that can bring people back from the dead and turn them into some short undead shambler fighters. As they discuss this, Chase gets up; before he could attack anyone, Boyce knocks him to the ground and pounds his head to death. The commotion makes the perfect time for Wafner to escape unnoticed. He comes down from the attic and grabs Paul upon his exit. A group of SS soldiers comes to his rescue and takes Paul hostage.

Chloe helplessly chases the army vehicle but is unable to, so she runs to Boyce for some help. Willing to help Chloe get her brother back, he angrily refuses to follow orders from Ford and reminds him that saying that their mission is more than just burning the church tower but also putting an end to the human experiments. The two have an argument, Boyce proposes infiltrating the base and destroying the tower from the inside, which would also destroy the laboratory. The other privates support him, and Ford grudgingly agrees.

## Beginning of the end

As the remaining paratroopers including Chloe plan their entrance to the church in a secluded part of the woods. They assign tasks to everyone who will split up during their mission. To initiate it, Chloe shows herself to the German soldiers, who chase her across town. They attempt to shoot her, but she successfully runs through the forest, pursued by one soldier to a nearby bridge. Scherzer (Wafner's second in command), thinking that he has cornered Chloe, gets off his bike to physically attack and force himself on her. However, upon being beaten down to the ground, Chloe lets out a laugh, then Ford knocks the soldier down. Next, they use the soldier that they strapped with explosives to make their way into the church. After the explosion injures several other soldiers, Rosenfeld and Tibbet launch a frontal assault as a distraction, while Ford, Boyce, and Chloe enter the base using the sewers. This causes a massive commotion inside the base, as the soldiers are alerted that they are under attack by a small group of Americans. Inside, Boyce and Ford carry out their mission to rig the place, while Chloe refuses to wait and runs to look for Paul. In a hallway, she holds two soldiers at gunpoint and shoots one of them after failing to disclose her brother's whereabouts.

In the communication room, Ford stabs a Nazi in the neck from behind to set timers as part of the plan to blow up the place. Underground, the soldier brings Chloe to the dens to mislead her that her brother is in there. He opens a cell, and she finds half a body lying on the floor. Luckily, Boyce gets to Chloe before she gets shot by the German soldier. Upon leaving, they see the zombie drag the soldier inside the cell to devour him. Both of them could not fathom what they saw, but with time as their enemy, they rushed to continue to find Paul. As discreetly as possible, they make it to the lab, where after some time, Paul calls for Chloe’s name. She reunites with her brother, and they find their way to the exit.

As Boyce plants explosives in the central part of the lab, Dr. Schmidt holds a gun to his head and orders him to follow his orders. But, with all his strength, he attacks the doctor back, and they have a brawl. Dr. Schmidt attempts to knife Boyce, but he is unsuccessful and gets killed instead. Boyce, who had previously finished planting explosives in the laboratory, ambushes Wafner by shooting him multiple times before getting thrown away across the room. The shambler-like Wafner opens compartments that contain bodies of fallen soldiers injected with the serum. In the middle of this, Ford pulls himself off the meat hook and injects himself with a dose of the serum to heal his wounds instantly. Aware of the consequences, he sacrifices himself to stop Wafner and stab him from behind with a broken pool. Both of them recklessly fight each other as their bodies continue to disfigure in the process. Boyce then managed to shoot an oxygen can; the explosion sends Wafner falling into the tar pit right at that moment.

Boyce approaches their Ford to help him get up, but Ford locks himself inside upon passing by the exit. He orders Boyce to leave him behind and detonate the explosives in the tower and knows that even though the Allies are losing the war, he believes neither side should possess the serum. After some convincing, Boyce follows his instructions just before Ford sets off the explosives in the lab, killing himself, the other shamblers, and Wafner, who had mutated further and climbed out of the tar pit. Boyce sets a timer on the explosives and escapes in the communications room as the church and jamming tower collapse behind him, burying the laboratory and the rest of the building.

## The Aftermath

The rest of the villagers gather outside as the radio announces the allied managed to get victory in most beach sectors, it ultimately failed with 156,000 Allied soldiers died during the attempted invasion of Normandy, as compared to only 89 Germans. Boyce reunites with Tibbet, Rosenfeld, Chloe, and Paul in the village and sadly informs them that Ford did not make it. A month after the invasion the remaining paratroopers encountered easy company of the 506th along with the remaining smokejumpers of the 555th (Who managed to take the town of Carentan after the D-Day invasion ended in a disaster) visit CieIblanc that was liberated by the 1st Infantry Division after the invasion. In his report, Boyce credits Ford for the decision to plant the bombs inside the church. LT. Richard Winters questions Boyce regarding rumors of an underground lab under the church. Boyce, sharing Ford's view, denies seeing anything worth digging up. He now believes that the zombies and the human experiments should be kept unknown, or else more people will suffer the same fate as failed test subjects. Winters seemingly accepts his story, and informs him that they will be reassigned to C Company as the war continues. Chloe is waiting for him, and the two walk up the gentle slope of the hill toward a lone, large linden tree perched on top waiting just for them. She reaches down and takes Boyce's hand as they walk. Just a few moments, they didn't know any better. The two thought the world wasn't upside down at all.

Two years after Clieblanc, and the Axis powers found the Da'at Yichud technology and were on the brink of winning World War II.  In July 1946, OSA agent and US Army Rangers Captain William J. Blazokwics managed to obtain the folder that will lead the Allies to the location of Deathshead's compound, and to turn the tide of the war, Blazkowicz gets knocked out by falling rubble and is saved by Fergus Reid along with Boyce, Rosenfeld, and Tibbet. While leaving, Blazkowicz observes whoever he had saved being extracted by other airborne troopers before leaving the town of Wulfburg. The scene sees with Reid, Blazkowicz, Boyce, and Rosenfeld on a truck headed to RAF Kinloss at the northern tip of Scotland as they make final preparations for the assault on Deathshead's Compound. During the assault on Deathshead's compound, Boyce, Rosenfeld, and Tibbet were on board the allied condor 9, where the three meet privates Wyatt, Gates, and Prendergast.  As the Allied Forces launch an assault against Deathshead. B.J. is knocked unconscious countless times during the fight but is revived by Fergus and keeps going for the visions he sees of a safer, happier life. After gunning down multiple Nazi aircraft, one of them crashed lands into the turret area destroying it. Fergus is radioed by Condor 9 to investigate issues with their fuel tank, with the fuselage hit and leaking. Condor 9 thanks Fergus before a piece of shrapnel kills the pilot. Wyatt takes the wheel of the condor and is instructed by Fergus on how to stop the transport from nose diving into the water. The situation is handled, with Fergus boarding the plane, abandoning his own. B.J. just barely makes it before the plane crashes and cuts into the transport. Fergus takes control of the transport, and B.J. is able to calm Wyatt's nerves. This doesn't last long though, as Fergus makes a crash landing on the beach. As most of the soldiers including Blazokwics, Reid, and Boyce land in the water, but some men were either get shot by Nazi machine guns or get eaten alive by Panzerhunds if they ever reached the surface. Boyce along with Fergus and Wyatt rendezvoused with Reid who had Prendergast (being shot to his left eye), Rosenfeld, Tibbet, and Gates along with a few American paratroopers and British soldiers who are members of the Parachute Regiment but they were surrounded by two Panzerhunds. Blazkowicz contacts Fergus via the phone inside a damaged condor, Wyatt flashes his light to give B.J. their location which attracts a Panzerhund to them. In order to save them, B.J. is instructed to push to a nearby turret. B.J. narrowly avoids a Panzerhund as he swims through the water, eventually destroying the Panzerhunds and pestering his squad. Another problem stands in their way, the small group of paratroopers can't make progress with the Automated Machine Guns keeping watch over their position, and B.J. is sent straight down the middle into the enemy trenches in order to eliminate the pillboxes lining the perimeter and his team to follow him after giving him covering fire to take the machine guns charged straight to the trenches. However, Boyce, Rosenfeld and a few paratroopers got separated from the rest of the group before getting ambushed by a Baltisches Auge along with German reinforcements before Boyce gets shot in the shoulder and Rosenfeld's legs are torn by a few packs of Kampfhunds. With no way out, the paratroopers had no choice but to surrender to be prisoners.

## Being liberated

Boyce, Tobbet, Rosenfeld, and other allied soldiers had been prisoners to Deathshead for the past 14 years, at this point, they were being put to hard labor. Strasse performs the most inhumane advanced experiments. It is fully equipped with automated incineration systems to clean up any organic tissue left by the test subjects. By November 15, 1960, the Kreisau Circle mounted another assault on the refitted Compound using *Eva's Hammer*. Boyce and Rosenfeld and the POWs encountered resistance fighters Anya Oliwa, Bombate, Set Roth and in a desperate attempt to get out of this compound, the prisoner decided to help them. B. J. Blazkowicz and a rescue party infiltrating the base. Taking them to the elevator, B.J. is separated from Anya and the group as she states that the two can live far away from the Nazis, B.J. agrees, but states that it's not for them. Anya takes the resistance to the helicopter, Boyce courageously provides the prisoners covering fire to get to the helicopter while  B.J. battles Wilhelm Strasse and is injured in the process.

## Events of the New Colossus

Months after the destruction of the Deathshead compound,  Frau Engel and her death squad attack Eva's Hammer to kill BJ. Despite the valiant resistance from the Kreisau circle, the entire submarine was overwhelmed and BJ was captured just after he woke up and fought his way through the Nazis. Irene Engel kills Caroline Becker, but is stopped by Sigrun Engel from executing Fergus/Wyatt, with the duo, alongside Sigrun, escaping from Engel's gasp and drives the Nazi out of Eva's Hammer. After regrouping with his comrades, he manages to get to the US and begins to launch a Second American Revolution with the American Resistance. Boyce and Rosenfeld decided to help the resistance by taking part in operations of taking parts of the back from the Nazis. It is unknown what happened to them during the Second American Revolution but it's possible that they survived.

## Living in Liberated

After the United States was finally liberated against the Nazis, members of the Kreisau Circle including Boyce, Tibbet, and Rosenfeld earned their rights to a plot of land after liberating America. Boyce, once of Louisiana and now of Ohio. Boyle is in his grandmother's (Who survived the Nazi concentration camps by the help of the Kreisau Circle) house when Chloe and Paul arrive, In 1964, Boyce and Chloe were married but he decided that they should moved to Canada in fear because although America is liberated by the Nazi's, the KKK is running the south, so they they did.

In December 25, 1975, fourteen years after moving to the United States and living a happy life in Chicago with Rosenfeld, food and more food. Sleep and more sleep. Chloe and Paul's French is a different flavour to the Canadian style, inflected with a variant of Quebecois somehow despite the distance in regions, and Ed's own Louisiana is startling enough that the first time he tries it out in the town's bakery, he gets odd looks and smiles and within five minutes has made a dozen friends who ply him with pastries and invitations.

Slowly the memories of Cielblanc and Europe start to fade as the heavy snows recede. Christmas is sombre and joyous, memories of families lost and of new ones gained. They open presents from Tibbet and Rosenfeld and trade books and pencils and baseballs and eat a lot, too much, so much that Paul unbuttons his pants buttons and Ed falls asleep on the couch. Beatrice comes to stay for a week or two and likes the place, even beneath her serious facade, and maybe one of these days they'll convince her to leave her Ohio home and take over the house down the street, near the bookstore she likes and the church she approves of.

## Personality and traits

Throughout the movie, Boyce is a meek, polite, strong, brave, intelligent, and compassionate soldier who is willing to protect the innocent and the weak. However, sometimes he can be timid and rather incompetent due to his past life experience with racism, having witnessed people that he loved either lynched or murdered in cold blood by the hands of white supremacy and being constantly put down by the cruelty of racism. He still retains his code of honor but becomes even more daring and capable as the film progresses. Boyce was the subject of many taunts and insults due to some people and perceived him for his cowardice and unwillingness to take a life, even that of a mouse that was making a mess in his unit's barracks. In actuality, he was a young man like some young black men at that time who experienced discrimination and being told that they were worthless apes. It doesn't change the fact that he's in the field and fighting alongside other soldiers, but is more concerned with saving lives than taking them. However, Boyce was known by some paratroopers as having a short temper and could sadistically beat someone to a pope. As seen when Chase was being mutated by the tar scrum and turned into a shambler like monster, Boyce charged from behind swinging his M1 Garand clubbing Chase across the back of his head repeatedly and Chase dropped to the floor as he continues to pound that rifle down over and over, till Chase's black blood spattering across his face and uniforms before Ford stops him and for a moment, Ford looks at him as much monster as man. He believes that he is the guardian of all people because his first name (Edward) means 'guardian and willing to protect those who are endangered, such as Wafner being a nasty piece of work, his first real onscreen action is threatening to have Paul sent to the church if Chloe doesn't have sex with him. Boyce stops him, but it's clear by Chloe's revulsion and Wafner's smug confidence that he's been more successful in the past. Then when he became a prisoner of Deathshead and escaped the compound, he wanted to help the Resistance to put an end to the Nazi's once and for all.

## Military ranks

**Private First Class:** Boyce's rank at the time of Overlord and prologue of The New Order. It was unclear if he rose up the ranks after D-Day.

## Skills and abilities

*"I can get us inside. I can. I can get us inside! We can blow the tower from below. We can destroy their fucking labs!"―*Boyce willing to help Chloe get her brother back, he refuses to follow orders from Ford, saying that their mission is more than just burning the church tower but also putting an end to the human experiments.

**Stealth:** Boyce managed to get inside of the CielBlanc Church without getting caught by a single Nazi. Granted the fact that an aggressive early vision of the Kampfhund dog spotted him and chased him, leaving him no choice but to enter a truck that was filled with dead Nazis, so he panics as he covers himself with a lifeless body on top.

*"Look at Boyce, official translator"*―Ford to Boyce after finding out that he can speak French.

**Multilingualism:** In addition to English as his native language, Boyce as a boy was taught how to speak French from his Haitian Grandmother. Hoopers to reach their target of CielBlanc.

**Hand-To-Hand:**  Boyce is known for having good reflexes and good at close counter fighting. This was seen when he used all his strength, he attacks Dr. Schmidt back after putting a gun behind his head, and attempts to stab Boyce with a scalpel, but he is unsuccessful and gets killed instead.

## Gallery

Boyce with an M1 Helmet on.Boyce trying to get his parachute gear while sinking.Boyce sneaking to Chloe’s house.Boyce talking to Ford.Boyce and Rosenfeld escaping the church.Boyce fabricated the story.