[srmanuel]

The Author who wrote the article “Band of Brothers”, the late Stephen Ambrose started a historical tour company that still operates, back in 2018 I went on their Band of Brothers tour, starting in Toccoa and all the way to Berchtesgaden and the Eagles Nest. The tour includes more than following the path of Easy Company, we spent 2-days of the 14-day tour in Normandy and other points of interest, a really fantastic trip.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Winters deserves full credit for his D-Day exploit. You should read the account in the book, Band of Brothers. Winters was recommended for the Medal of Honor, but they had a policy of one per division for the landing. In England prior to the landing he was staying with an English couple, who had lost their own son in France prior to Dunkirk. This was not unusual for officers (he was a 1LT). They heard the account of his exploit on the BBC radio reports. ("Mentioned in the dispatches"?) I read that his actions are still taught as an example of initiative and leadership at West Point to this day. (Unfortunately, they were not very diverse team.)

One does get the impression that the Germans they faced were not the best. In one vignette at the chateau (where the German artillery they were attacking was located and the troops quartered) during the height of the engagement, one of his men saw two Germans lackadaisically walking across a field with mess kits heading to chow, well within rifle range. He asked Winters what he should do. "Shoot 'em!" Unheard, beyond the ocean tide, Their [German] mother made her moan."