Story idea? You can reach Mike Woods at 92 or at: charter. He was tough as nails, had a wonderful sense of humor and possessed a first loyalty to Easy Company that was second to none.” “George Lus typified the average soldier in Easy Company. “One of the pillars of Easy Company,” Winters told. To Richard, though, Lus was much more than a soldier who could bring levity to a company that faced a daily battle with life and death. And everybody will always remember who George Lus is.” So, we were we were surprised and admired the young kid (Rick Gomez) who did play our dad and did a great job. He was a radio guy, but he was the funny guy. So, we had no idea how much of dad was going to be in this. said when the “Band of Brothers” series was released, his family was surprised at how much his dad was a part of it. It’s through this program he is doing what was asked of his family keeping alive the memory of his father and Easy Company, of which there are no surviving members. has been touring the country telling the story of Easy Company in a presentation called “Through My Father’s Eyes.” He told my mom, “It’s you and your family’s responsibility to carry on the message of George and all the men he served with.” He grew up at the same place, taking advantage of the great outdoors to become familiar with rifle shooting and quickly became an excellent shooter. “And he said that this now is your responsibility. Darrel Shifty Powers Band of Brothers Darrel Shifty Powers Veterans of Easy Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Darrell Powers was born on March 13th, 1923 in Clinchco, Virginia. “Winters had sent a Christmas card to my mom,” he said. Richard Winters, and it was a letter he sent to Lus’ wife following his death that changed the course of Lus Jr.’s life. But it might not have happened that way’ kind of thing. “When I asked about how accurate it was, (Darrell) Shifty Powers said, ‘Well, you know, it happened. I don’t need to see it again.’ But most of the guys enjoyed it, to a degree. “Some of the guys saw the series, some of the guys didn’t want to see the series,” Lus Jr. He was on hand for the series debut in Normandy, as were about 50 members of Easy Company. reconnected with many of the men from Easy Company and attended their annual reunions. The series debuted in 2001, three years after George Lus passed. That book would turn into the HBO miniseries “Band of Brothers,” with Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks as executive producers. We all did the same stuff.’ But my sister pushed him to get some stories in there.” Right? So, it wasn’t like, ‘I’m not doing that for that guy.’ It was just that, ‘Don’t get my stories in there. “He got together with his buddies every year. said of his father on being part of the book. “He really didn’t want it to do that,” Lus Jr. When it was all over, historian Stehpen Ambrose wrote a book on Easy Company called “Band of Brothers.” Easy Company was part of the Allied invasion on D-Day, fought in the Battle of the Bulge, liberated the Dachau concentration camp and raided Hitler’s “Eagles Nest” after he committed suicide. He would wind up in Easy Company of the 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division during World War II. But, as a child of the Great Depression, the job paid $50 more a month than the job that was paying him $16 a week. He signed up for the Army in 1942 despite the objections of his father. Like so many in his generation, George Lus had done so much. "And at that moment, I just said, ‘Let’s see if I can just do more in life than what I’m doing now.’ Not that I was doing nothing, but that was my moment to take over and to carry on what he had done.” “When they turned it around, he put his hand on the casket and with tears coming down his eyes, he was rubbing the casket,” said Lus, who spoke at EAA as part of the Aviation Adventure Speaker Series. There are no living members of Easy Company, the unit depicted in 'Band of Brothers'.It was turned into a HBO miniseries by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks.'Band of Brothers' was orginially a book by historian Stephen Ambrose.I just found the image interesting, and thought I’d share it. The Soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge fought in these foxholes for over a month. 14, dug by soldiers during the battle of the bulge. David Real with sustainment Brigade 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), sits in a foxhole in Ardennes Belgium, Dec. When I did a search for images, I ran across this one of several present members of the 101st sitting in what remains of those holes just last month, on Dec. Those guys lived in and fought from those holes for a month before rising up to take the town of Foy and resume their march into Germany. Which is fitting I suppose, since these holes were not the kind that were dug one day and abandoned the next. It seems that you can still see the foxholes occupied by members of the 101st Airborne Division - including the guys celebrated in the book and series “Band of Brothers” - in the Bois Jacques portion of the Ardennes. 16 and was still going on 75 years ago today, and ran across a fact that surprised me a bit, and that I though I would share. I was looking up something about the Battle of the Bulge, which had started on Dec.
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