Dick Winters (Band of Brothers leader) dies

[soad]

RIP.

[theaxe]

RIP, if half of what was shown in BoB was true then he was an astonishing man. I'll certainly look out a biography.

Eric Mc said:

As for Winters, he was a true hero and I'm so glad Stephen Ambrose unearthed the story of Easy Company.

This reminds me of this project which is trying to get the story of British hero Wally Harris MM made into a film.

[LukeBird]

Thanks for sharing saladin, fantastic stuff.

[Crafty_]

theaxe said:

RIP, if half of what was shown in BoB was true then he was an astonishing man. I'll certainly look out a biography.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beyond-Band-Brothers-Memoirs-Winters/dp/0425213757/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1294859935&sr=8-1

There are quite a few easy company books, but this is another excellent one:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Brothers-Battle-Friends-Wi...

[deviant]

Civpilot said:

hora said:

Slightly O/T: The best 'bit' for me in the whole series was the German General talk to his soldiers that appeared to apply to all sides. I'm not sure how much of this was reality or for the program?

I think according to the book that may actually have happened, my memory is a bit fuzzy but I'm sure I remember reading it.

Yes it did happen.

Dick Winters also kept the German pistol his entire life and never once fired it and always said that it would remain unfired for as long as he owned it.

I can thoroughly reccommend that if anyone is heading to the Normandy region of France they get in touch with Battlebus and go on the BoB tour.
Dead Mans Corner Museum is also well worth a trip, the men of Easy Company have donated a lot of their war souvenirs, uniforms etc. http://www.paratrooper-museum.org/us/DMC.html

There is a lot of stuff to see in the area..Pegasus Bridge and it's museum are worth a trip. The many graveyards and memorials are humbling. In lots of the towns and villages you can still see evidence of the war.

[Nick_F]

We published Band of Brothers in audio form some ten years ago - coincidentally we re-issued it recently and I've not long finished listening to it.

Truly humbling stuff: Dick Winters certainly was an extraordinary man.

[Dave200]

pilchardthecat said:

The Lukas said:

That's a real shame. I've just finished watching the Pacific, now going to rewatch Band of Brothers. Superb guy.

Yup. Just bought it (again)... this time on BluRay.

You won't regret that purchase. Both Band of Brothers and Pacific blew my b*llocks off on BluRay.

[read5458]

Love Band Of Brothers.

R.I.P Dick.


On a side note, I found it remarkable that Frank John Hughes who played Bill Guarnere, looks like the real Bill Guarnere.

[Nick_F]

hora said:

A good read is Colonel Von Luck's Panzer Commander. Not just a view from the German side but German interaction with both the British and the Americans (and the shared respect). Von Luck served throughout the whole war in African and Europe before being sent to a Gulag in Russia.

I picked that up last year - fascinating and somehow quite disconcerting just how much men like Von Luck and Winters were alike.

[Dr G]

RIP Dick, a genuine hero.

Insprising thread too! Have watched and love the series but will pick up some reading material on my way home this evening.

[pilchardthecat]

I see there are a number of books - There's one by Larry Alexander, plus the memoirs and some others.

Which one would you recommend?

[LukeBird]

deviant said:

Dead Mans Corner Museum is also well worth a trip, the men of Easy Company have donated a lot of their war souvenirs, uniforms etc. http://www.paratrooper-museum.org/us/DMC.html

I've been there, it's a fantastic museum!

[Eric Mc]

If anyone is interested, BBC Radio 4 had two nice tributes to Dick Winters recently. Yesterday his obituary was included in "Last Word" and there was a little piece about him in this morning's edition of "Today".

Both can be listened to again on BBC iPlayer.

[Curry Burns]

Just halfway through the Band of Brothers series for the first time, just pas the episode 'Crossroads' where Cpt Winters runs out into the open by himself and taking on a battalion of Germans single handed until his squad followed on the red smoke.

An utter legend.

RIP

[saladin]

Eric Mc said:

If anyone is interested, BBC Radio 4 had two nice tributes to Dick Winters recently. Yesterday his obituary was included in "Last Word" and there was a little piece about him in this morning's edition of "Today".

Both can be listened to again on BBC iPlayer.

Yes I listened to it (The Last Word)..Will look up the Today progamme on iPlayer, thanks for the heads up on that

I found it a very moving tribute on The Last Word.... The mould was broken when they made him... Cliché I know.... But so very very true in this case...

[tweetstreet]

In reply to how much of the series is the truth I think it has been said that it is about 95% fact, Although i'm sure it's mentioned that the concentration camp episode takes some artistic liscence just to show that period of history.

That being said I was trully gutted when i heard the news, RIP Major Winters