![]() Eventually, however, Easy Company’s harrowing and courageous exploits on the Western front in 19 would be immortalized in the 2001 HBO series Band of Brothers. At the Dachau concentration camp, they liberated scores of Holocaust prisoners who’d endured months, if not years, of hell.Īnd as the war in Europe drew to a close, they captured Hitler’s personal mountaintop retreat in southern Germany - then kicked back on his terrace in triumph while sipping champagne from his wine cellar.īut for decades, Winters was reluctant to even tell his story, lest he be called a hero. On D-Day, he and his “band of brothers” in Easy Company defeated a far larger German force and allowed the Allied advance to continue. Though he never bragged about it, Major Dick Winters led perhaps the most storied U.S. “One day, my grandson said to me, ‘Grandpa, were you a hero in the war? And I said to him, ‘No, I’m not a hero, but I have served in a company full of them.” ![]() Army Major Richard Winters had a poignant exchange with his grandson, one that exemplified his quiet selflessness. Army/HBO Richard Winters (left) and Damian Lewis portraying him (right) in Band of Brothers.ĭecades after he fought in World War II, U.S. ![]()
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