- On D-Day, Winters assumed leadership of the Band of Brothers when its commander was killed and led them through the Battle of the Bulge and into Germany—by which time each member had been wounded. Based on Winters’s wartime diary, Beyond Band of Brothers also includes his comrades’ untold stories.
- 'Beyond Band of Brothers' is Dick Winters' account of his experiences with Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the Second World War. Winters will already be familar to many readers from his role in 'Band of Brothers' by Steven Ambrose, and in the HBO mini-series 'Band of.
- The book 'Beyond Band of Brothers' has been written by the commander of the army, Dick Winters. Winters and his team was referred to as the Easy Company. However, the mission that they were trying to accomplish was far from being easy. Commemorated as the Band of Brothers, Winters and his soldiers suffered 150% casualties while they tried to.
- 'Beyond Band of Brothers' is Dick Winters' account of his experiences with Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the Second World War. Winters will already be familar to many readers from his role in 'Band of Brothers' by Steven Ambrose, and in the HBO mini-series 'Band of Brothers.' As one of the last surviving officers of the.
About the author (2008) Major Dick Winters was born near Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1918. A graduate of Franklin & Marshall College in 1941, he was one of the initial officers assigned to Easy.
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Biography
Richard Dick Winters, a graduate of Franklin Marshall College, Lancaster Country, Pennsylvania, joined the military in 1941.
During basic training, Winters is intrigued by his training officer who makes an explanatory speech for an hour on a rifle he believed to hold in his hands when it was not the right one.
It is also during his classes that Winters discovers the airborne troops. He immediately decided to volunteer in the “Airborne Troops” he did not know of, as did a large part of the Americans at the time.
He joined the Easy Company in the summer of 1942 as head of section at the Toccoa training grounds in Georgia. The relationship between Winters and his immediate superior, Captain Herbert Sobel, is not fixed and to avoid tensions that can hinder the smooth running of operations, Sobel is transferred to another regiment and replaced by Lieutenant Thomas Meehan.
In Normandy, Meehan is killed on D-Day, and Winters becomes the commander of the Easy by substitution. He excelled at this post and the American General Staff, as the fighting in Europe evolved, decided to gradually raise it to rank. Richard D. Winters becomes Major (commander) at the end of the Second World War.
Captain Winters at Haguenau, Alsace
Winters was an officer very close to his men, not hesitating to meet the assaults, analyzing situations quickly and efficiently (the assault he organized and ordered on D-Day near Manoir deBrécourt in Normandy is now studied, commented and taught at the American School of West Point officers for his amazing efficiency) and did not hesitate to refuse orders he deemed useless, as in Haguenau, Alsace, where Winters refused to set up a combat patrol.
He died on January 2, 2011 at 92 years old.
Richard Dick Winters wrote his memoirs as Beyond Band of Brothers, The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
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