Private Will Paige

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William Paige
???-16 June 1944
Nickname	Will
Rank	Private
Unit	Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 101st Airborne 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment

Private William Paige is a fictional person from Gearbox Software's Brothers in Arms series. Paige is a secondary person in Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood.

1 Paige's Past
2 Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood
3 Misc. Info
4 See also

[edit] Paige's Past

William Paige is a sarcastic young man. Paige joined the 101st Airborne Division and was eventually moved to England with the rest of his unit to train for the initial invasion of Normandy, "Operation Overlord." At this time Paige was a Private and was part of 1st Squad's Fire Team. Paige was not very well known for his being friendly. He usually teased, mocked and bullied the other soldiers, and was known for being a terrible hothead. Only Private Derrick McConnell was friends with him.

[edit] Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood

Throughout Earned in Blood,Paige and the second squad's story is told by Hartsock to Army historian S.L.A. Marshall. The first half of the story tells about missions that happened in between the normal missions in Road to Hill 30. Due to the terrible misdrops the airborne suffered Paige was often stuck with members of 3rd Squad. He is seen once with Cpl.Campbell and Col.Johnson, when he was still part of the 1st squad, that was broken apart: the only survivors were him, Cpl.Campbell and Pvt.McConnell . In D-Day+1, he is seen mocking and insulting some German prisoners, pushing them with his weapon.He would have beaten them if Campbell wasn't there to calm him down.

After Hartsock is promoted to 2nd Squad's leader, Paige was part of the fire team along with Pfc.Marsh and Cpl.Campbell.

Paige and the second squad helped Cpl. Doyle and the 82nd to capture and clear the strategically important city of St. Sauveur, France.

Unfortunately while in St. Sauveur Doyle gets vaporized by a tank shell from a Panzer tank. Paige saved Hartsock's life by pulling him out of the line of fire, before dying in front of the Sergeant. He had a bad sucking wound to the chest, where his heart was exposed. He mumbles about his condition as he leans on the wall losing blood from the wound and from the mouth.

[edit] Misc. Info

Paige is seen in the games using the M1 Garand in the early stages of D-Day. When Hartsock takes him under his command, we apperently swaps his rifle with a Thompson M1A1. Strangley enough he is part of Hartsock's fire team handling an assault weapon.