The Legacy of Dick Winters
The "Band of Brothers" leader's renown grows even larger 75 years after D-Day
By John Luciew | jluciew@pennlive.com | June 3, 2019
It’s now the stuff of legend:
The D-Day parachute drop that scattered them across Normandy dairy fields.
The out-numbered assault on Nazi machine gun nests, poised high over Utah beach to cut down landing Allied soldiers before they got so much as a foothold in France.
The subsequent 11-month slog across Europe, traversing the winter depths of the Battle of the Bulge and the soaring heights of Adolf Hitler’s hideaway mountain-top retreat at Berchtesgaden.
Yet it took nearly 50 years, and more than a little convincing, for the story of Maj. Richard "Dick" Winters and his "Band of Brothers" of the 101st Airborne Division’s Easy Company to be told.
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