Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Chapters: Richard Winters, Carwood Lipton, Ronald Speirs, Robert Sink, Donald Malarkey, Lewis Nixon, William Guarnere, Albert Blithe, Lynn Compton, Joseph Liebgott, Edward Heffron, Jack E. Foley, David Kenyon Webster, Darrell Powers, Floyd Talbert, Harry Welsh, Frank Perconte, Joe Toye, Denver Randleman, Eugene Roe, George Luz, Herbert Sobel, Frederick Heyliger, Joseph Lesniewski, Warren Muck, Thomas Meehan III, Roy Cobb, Charles E. Grant, Alex Penkala, Norman Dike, Walter Gordon, Donald Hoobler. Excerpt: Major Richard "Dick" D. Winters (January 21, 1918 January 2, 2011) was a United States Army officer and decorated war veteran. He commanded Company "E", 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, during World War II. Winters parachuted into Normandy in the early hours of D-Day, and fought across France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and eventually into Germany. Later in the war, Winters rose to command the 2nd Battalion. Following the end of hostilities Winters was discharged from the army and returned to civilian life, working in New Jersey. In 1951, during the Korean War, Winters was recalled to the Army from the inactive list and briefly served as a regimental planning and training officer on staff at Fort Dix, New Jersey. Although issued orders for deployment, he was not sent to Korea. After his discharge he worked at a few different jobs before founding his own company and selling farming products. Winters was featured in a number of books and was portrayed in the 2001 HBO mini-series Band of Brothers by Damian Lewis. He was a regular guest lecturer at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He retired in 1997. He was the last of the Easy Company commanders to pass away. Richard Winters was born in Ephrata, Pennsylvania to Richard and Edith Winters on January 21, 1918. He moved to nearby Lancaster when he was eight years old. He graduated from Lancaster Boys High School in 1937 and matriculated to Franklin and Marshall College. At Franklin and Marshall, Winters was a member of the Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity and participated in intramural football and basketball as a member of Upsilon Chapter. He had to give up wrestling, his favorite sport, and most of his social activities, for his studies and the part-time jobs that paid his way through college. He graduated in 1941 with the highest academic standing in the business college. The war had broken out in Europe, and he enlisted in the Army. Winters enlisted in the army on A

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Titel:

Band of Brothers characters

Untertitel:

Richard Winters, Carwood Lipton, Ronald Speirs, Robert Sink, Donald Malarkey, Lewis Nixon, William Guarnere, Albert Blithe, Lynn Compton, Joseph Liebgott, Edward Heffron, Jack E. Foley, David Kenyon Webster, Darrell Powers, Floyd Talbert

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Source: Wikipedia

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9781155544250

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1155544250

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Kartonierter Einband

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Books LLC, Reference Series

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Geschichte