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Richard Winters Deserves the Medal of Honor - 10/30/2004 5:59:08 AM

KG Erwin
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Viewers of the HBO series "Band of Brothers" and those of us who worked on the Screaming Eagles Mega-Campaign are well aware of Lt. Richard Winters' exploits. For more background on this, see this website: http://www.voicenet.com/~lpadilla/winters.html

Also, see this forum :http://forums.wildbillguarnere.com/index.php?showtopic=2648&st=0

Dick Winters is still alive, and I believe he deserves the MOH. We should get behind the effort to get this awarded to him before he passes.

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RE: Richard Winters Deserves the Medal of Honor - 10/30/2004 2:37:19 PM

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Thanks KG. interesting thread. I will continue to follow it.

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RE: Richard Winters Deserves the Medal of Honor - 11/1/2004 2:04:18 AM

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A few weeks ago I was checking around online and looked at a site about Easy company and the band of brothers. They had a picture of Dick Winters from about 1944 (along with others). Man, all I can say is he looked like one totally strack troop. The actor who played him didn't even come close to doing him justice.

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RE: Richard Winters Deserves the Medal of Honor - 11/1/2004 3:01:18 AM

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As a ex-military member I would never say this lightly but I would follow him into battle any time!

Rich

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RE: Richard Winters Deserves the Medal of Honor - 11/2/2004 5:08:39 PM

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Soo...when was the last time you picked 12 men and took out a company strength artillery position? MOH class indeed.

If you want an excellent narration (with slides!) of the assault, take a look here: http://www.brecourtassault.com/index.htm

Sometimes makeshift plans work better than the most meticously planned attack. Compare Winters' success with Colonel Otway's assault on the Merville battery.

And now it's question time: I keep getting confused as to what artillery unit the Brecourt manor guns belonged? Are these the same as the Saint-Martin-de-Varreville battery, assigned to be assulted by the 502nd? The German name for this battery is Madeleine and was the only one that really had the Utah beach within reach. Madeleine was a fortified position with bunkers, but the 502nd found none when they eventually got there, and the intel they had said 6 155mm guns, not 4 105mm that was really the case. After reporting the Madeleine position as deserted the 502nd set after secondary objectives.

Sorry if it's confusing, but I wonder if the Brecourt battery was the Madeleine guns in their temporary field position? The geographical location is correct and the place isn't exactly teeming with battery positions...

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