Posted on 01/09/2011 5:43:04 PM PST by GQuagmire
Edited on 01/09/2011 6:25:15 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Currahee! Thank You Major Winters.
Great book, indeed! It was in that book that I learned that Dick Winters’ assault on that German artillery position in Normandy saved the life of a dear friend from the 4th Infantry Division on Utah Beach. And a lot of others, I’m sure.
RIP, Major Winters. One of F&M’s most distinguished alumni.
Heaven just got a little better. Can’t wait to meet him.
I’ll never forget his commentary when interviewed and the solid humility of it.
RIP Major Winters.
I can't help wondering what he thinks of the mess later generations have made of the great nation he helped save.
RIP Major Winters. God bless all veterans.
He was a great man.
If he was half the man portrayed he was a heck of a guy.
Chances are he was more. He seemed like the type who would never admit to doing anything “heroic”.
I remember reading a story about the filming of “To Hell and Back”. A lot of Audie Murphys feats were cut out - the producers didn’t want people to think it made up.
A quiet man with a steel spine and a gift for leadership.
I cannot listen to that song without crying my eyes out.
....like now.....
Godspeed Dick Winters...
Salute to Major Winters. You were a leader and a patriot, sir.
I was at the VA Hospital just a couple of days ago visiting a friend and met a man who served under Winters. He was 17 when he met up with the 506th after they had left the Ardenne. My friend made the mistake of saying "that was after all the real fighting was done". He set the record straight. Said that when they engaged regular army they would surrender or not shot at them but often they engaged fanatical kids that came out of the Hitler Youth that were too stupid to know they were beat that would open up on them and they had to kill every one of them.
Band of Brothers didn't really show that. I could have spent all day listening to that guy.
A similar story was told about Major General John Frost who commanded a battalion of the British First Airborne at Arnhem, and was portrayed by Anthony Hopkins in A Bridge Too Far.
The structure Frost had selected for his HQ during the battle was across a road from the building being used as the Battalion aid station and casualty collection point. At one point the battle German forces brought the road under direct fire making it dangerous to cross between the two. When they filmed Frost (Hopkins) crossing between the buildings he ran and dodged. The real Frost, who served as a technical adviser for the film, advised Hopkins that he needed to walk smartly between the buildings, because it would have been bad form for his soldiers to see him running scared. The film makers discarded his advice because filming the event as it actually happened would have been, "unbelievable."
Sad news. Should be ping the “realtime” group?
Sad news...
If men like Major Winters were running this country, we’d be in good hands. He was a true hero. I am grateful for his service.
A salute to MAJ Winters and all of our military members past and present.
LTC, EN, ret
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