Antonio C. Garcia was a native of Inez, Texas, and was a high school student in Cheyenne, Wyoming when he enlisted as a Paratrooper. He borrowed a friend's prescription medicine to cover up a heart murmur for his Army physical and was accepted for training in 1943.
He was a Replacement for Easy Company, together with Private Lester Hashey, Private James W. Miller and Private Edward J. "Babe" Heffron, who quickly became friend with Staff Sergeant William J. "Bill" Guarnere. Like Miller and Hashey, he was put into Sergeant Denver "Bull" Randleman's squad.
He first saw combat during Operation Market Garden in the Battle of Nuenen, where Private Miller was killed by a mortar shell. He fought on "The Island", at Bastogne and remained with Easy Company until the end of the war. He is seen in the baseball scene in part 10, "Points". He is played in the series by actor Douglas Spain.
Later life
After the war, Garcia worked as a department store warehouseman in Colma, California for three decades. He and his wife Nancy had four children. In 1999, at the age of 74, he made a parachute jump as part of a reunion with his Easy Company comrades.
Garcia died on 18 August 2005.