More, Alton Merton, born 23-04-1920, in Casper, Natrona County, Wyoming, USA 
, the son of the saloonkeeper Ashton Myrton More (1883-1955) and his wife Grace A, born Hatley More (1884–1943). 
Alton had one sister and one brother, Delbert Martin More (1911–1943) and Elizabeth Arthusa “Betty” More Sodeman, (1911–1999). Alton was a member of Easy Company, of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 
under command of General Lieutenant Robert Frederick Sink “Bob”, “Five-Oh-Sink” 
101st Airborne Division 
of the United States Army, under command of General Maxwell Davenport Taylor 
during World War II, the unit whose incredible story was told in HBO’s 2001 EMMY-winning series, “Band of Brothers.”In the series, Alton was played by Doug Allen, but in his real-life WWII military service, Private More parachuted into Normandy, France, 
on D-Day, fought in the Ardennes Forest during the Battle of the Bulge, and was one of the first soldiers to liberate Eagle’s Nest, 
Adolph Hitler‘s mountaintop stronghold high in the Bavarian Alps. Author Stephen Ambrose described More as “a rugged John Wayne type, the son of a saloonkeeper in Casper, Wyoming.” In June 1943, he had married his high school sweetheart, Emma Jean Barnhill, and when their first child was born, More was in England training for the D-Day invasion.In Easy Company, “Band of Brothers” More was also long known as a “master scrounger.”and he lived up to that name in Hitler’s captured Eagle’s Nest mountain chalet when he discovered two of the Fuhrer’s personal photograph albums. Some military officers demanded he turn over the albums, but More refused and hid the treasured souvenirs himself, all with the full support of his sympathetic commanding officer, Major Winters, Richard Davis “Dick”. 
Death and burial ground of More, Alton Merton.
After More returned home to Wyoming in 1945, he worked as a salesman for Folger’s Coffee, but on 31-07-1958, the car he was driving struck a horse on Route 26 in Natrona County, and he was killed. Alton was only 38. According to his granddaughter Kim McAbee, after More’s death, his widow sold the invaluable Hitler albums to a writer who had promised to write a book about More. But over the next 60 years, as of November 2023, the book and the photo albums have yet to surface.
More, Alton Merton is buried at Highland Cemetery, Casper, Natrona County, Wyoming, United States.
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