High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Private Roy W. Cobb was a soldier who served with the 1st Armored Division years before enlisting in the paratroopers with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army during World War II. During his military service, Roy's rank was always Private. Cobb was portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers by Craig Heaney. Cobb had served in the army 9 years prior to enlisting in the Parachute Infantry. During that time, he partook in an assault landing in Africa with the 1st Armored Division. He survived a torpedo attack that sank the troop ship he was on when traveling back to the States.