RIP Maj. Dick Winters

mrscoby78 · Jan 10, 2011

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kerfwango · Jan 10, 2011

An amazing life. RIP, Major Winters.

Lincoln · Jan 19, 2011

A little late here, but RIP, Major.

mrscoby78 · Jan 19, 2011

LINCOLN!!!!!!! 

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<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by Lincoln <a href="/forum/thread/72089/rip-maj-dick-winters#post_1977978"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border-right:0px solid;border-top:0px solid;border-left:0px solid;border-bottom:0px solid;"></a> A little late here, but RIP, Major.
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Lincoln · Jan 20, 2011

Hello, Scoobs! How's everything? <img alt="glasses1.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/glasses1.gif">

mrscoby78 · Jan 20, 2011

Peachy keen jelly bean! Good to see you stranger.

Buxtehude · Feb 15, 2011

I think I'll read the book that Band of Brothers was based on. I loved the series. Rest in peace, Major Winters.
 
(sorry to bump and old thread. I saw it a while ago but wasn't posting at that time)

kerfwango · Feb 16, 2011

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Anyone seen The Pacific? Good? I caught one episode and it just so happened that I had just recently finished reading William Manchester's Goodbye, Darkness. It seemed like it was heavily based on his memoir.
 
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kerfwango · Feb 16, 2011

BTW, my parents live about half an hour from the former site of Camp Toccoa. One Thanksgiving weekend, my sister and I drive over and ran up Sink Trail on Mt. Currahee. (It's a gravel road now.) I could not imagine those guys running that mountain in full gear. Unbelievable. I was in nothing but running clothes and in good running shape and it damn near killed me.

Buxtehude · Feb 16, 2011

Aw, man. The Pacific is on my "to watch" list.
 
That Currahee story is amazing, Kerfwangp. Imagine running that with a stomach full of spaghetti, like the BOB series depicted. Hurl!

jebba · Feb 16, 2011

I am in the middle of watching The Pacific. I think I have one or two episodes to go. It's quite good. I think BOB might have been a teensy bit better.

kerfwango · Feb 16, 2011

I wonder why the European Theater seems to be perennially more compelling than the Pacific. If I recall correctly, many more soldiers and Marines died fighting in the big battles of the Pacific than, say, the Normandy Invasion and the Battle of the Bulge.

Buxtehude · Feb 16, 2011

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<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by kerfwango <a href="/forum/thread/72089/rip-maj-dick-winters#post_1984123"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border-bottom:0px solid;border-left:0px solid;border-top:0px solid;border-right:0px solid;"></a> I wonder why the European Theater seems to be perennially more compelling than the Pacific. If I recall correctly, many more soldiers and Marines died fighting in the big battles of the Pacific than, say, the Normandy Invasion and the Battle of the Bulge.
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As someone who lives in California, whose ancestors fought in the Pacific Theater, I'd say that the Pacific is MORE compelling. I wonder if one's perception of the war (Pacific-vs-Europe) is effected by where you grew up.

Buxtehude · Feb 16, 2011

If I remember right, California men were typically sent to the Pacific.

Buxtehude · Feb 16, 2011

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As far as pop culture goes, The Thin Red Line was just one prominent movie about the Pacific.

kerfwango · Feb 17, 2011

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As far as pop culture goes, The Thin Red Line was just one prominent movie about the Pacific.
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And a thoroughly horrible one, if I may say.

Buxtehude · Feb 17, 2011

There was a time in my life when I would've debated you on this. I once loved this movie and saw it at least twenty times. But, I can see why a person would hate it. 

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And a thoroughly horrible one, if I may say.
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Lincoln · Feb 17, 2011

I wasn't terribly impressed with either the book or the movie, but for some reason, I have linked in my head The Thin Red Line and Catch-22, which I thoroughly disliked. And I don't know why I've got the two linked. I think I read them both about the same time in college.
 
I loved BoB and read the book over and over. I think part of the reason I'm more conversant with the ETO as opposed to the PTO is the simple geographical fact that I can picture a map of Europe in my head while I'm reading and and I generally know what goes where, so it's easy for me to "see" big-picture movements if I want to.
 
Plus, my family is European, so there's that familial link, even though we came to the US in the 1700s.

Buxtehude · Feb 17, 2011

The family/geographical link really interests me. I wonder if I assumed the Pacific was as perenially compelling, if not more, than the European theater because of my family and location.
 
Anyways, interesting to me!

Timr1 · Feb 17, 2011

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<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by Buxtehude <a href="/forum/thread/72089/rip-maj-dick-winters#post_1983730"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border-bottom:0px solid;border-left:0px solid;border-top:0px solid;border-right:0px solid;"></a> I think I'll read the book that Band of Brothers was based on. I loved the series. Rest in peace, Major Winters.
 
(sorry to bump and old thread. I saw it a while ago but wasn't posting at that time) 
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I just read Biggest Brother, a biography of Dick Winters that my Dad gave me for Christmas. In fact, I was in the middle of it when he died. I would highly recommend it. It fills in the gaps of details from Winters' perspective that weren't covered in the mini-series or the Steven Ambrose book. It also tells you about the process of creating and filming BOB. 
 
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