Major Dick Winter

[Eggs and Shrubs]

I've just listened to a feature on BBC Radio about Major Winter, who has recently died at the age of 92. I was completely unaware of the role Major Winter played in the Normandy Landings in 1944. His personal heroism together with amazing intelligence resulted in there being only(!) 200 dead on Utah beach rather than the many thousands on Omaha. A remarkable and yet modest man.

Without Americans of this calibre I would be typing this post in German.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Winters

[danna]

Will have to read he sounds like a great hero we should know more about these men....

on a lighter note with snowing falling again here you will not believe how I first read you title...hehe

[Alan]

Anyone unfamiliar with Major Winters should see the HBO series "Band of Brothers". (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185906/)

[iris lily]

Will have to read he sounds like a great hero we should know more about these men....

on a lighter note with snowing falling again here you will not believe how I first read you title...hehe

Same here, thought he was grousing about the weather.

[Life_is_Simple]

on a lighter note with snowing falling again here you will not believe how I first read you title...hehe
Yeah, I thought the subject line was a sign that we could be more liberal with our language on this new forum!;)

[Eggs and Shrubs]

Yeah, I thought the subject line was a sign that we could be more liberal with our language on this new forum!;)

As Oscar Wilde put it "We are two nations divided by a common language"

[earthshepherd]

My BIL and DH love watching "Band of Brothers". I will ask them about this, thanks.