ian2b Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 R.I.P Major Richard "Dick" Winters of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. Richard 'DICk' Winters passed away on 2 January (11) - less than three weeks short of his 93rd birthday. http://www.suite101.com/content/major-dick-winters-band-of-brothers-commander-dies-a330433 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joris Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 May he rest in peace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keito Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 RIP Major Winters RTU Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeEnfield Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 R.I.P. An Honest and Humble HERO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick W Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Sad to hear that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toolman Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 May he rest in peace! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ford 369 Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 RIP to another of a great generation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Topdog Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 A very humble great leader of men. RIP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
25 pounder Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 R.I.P. another great man passed away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinsaunders06 Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 very sad, a another person who seen a different world and who took part in and influenced history. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M5Clive Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 (edited) Dick Winters only ever returned to Aldbourne once after the end of WWII and that was when my brother Neil invited Dick, Carwood Lipton, Don Malarky and Dr. Stephen Ambrose back to the village on Saturday June 29th 1991, before Ambrose had written the book Band of Brothers and long long before Spielburg and Hanks had made them household names. Dick took the time to find the graves of the Barnes family whom he lived with above the village store, for the duration of his time in England during WWII in Aldbourne C of E parish church. The men also visited the village fete on the Green and toured the (then) sole remaining stable block at Hightown House, where the 506th had been billeted in 1943/44. The three men were loaded aboard local Wiltshire Area MVT member Colin Spencer's Willys MB for a tour of the village and a journey up to the rolling downlands, so that they could see the village nestled in the valley, which brought back many memories for the three Easy Company Veterans. Their visit was brief but without the intervention of Neil, they would never have made it back at all, although Don Malarky did make another subsequent return visit in more recent years. On a subsequent visit to the US, Neil also visited Dick at his Hershey, Pennsylvania, Farm House (that he promised to himself if he ever survived the horrors of combat) and kept in touch for many years until old age and the reality of his unexpected fame late in life caught up with him. He was a very unassuming individual and without question one of 'The Greatest Generation' Edited January 10, 2011 by M5Clive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joris Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 Their visit was brief but without the intervention of Neil, they would never have made it back at all, Care to tell us more? You've made me very curious! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M5Clive Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 Hi Joris The below youtube link should tell you more (and anyone else) who may be interested in Dick Winter's only Post War return to Aldbourne, Wiltshire - The wartime home of the 506th PIR including Easy Company. Clive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
recymech66 Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 The below youtube link should tell you more (and anyone else) who may be interested in Dick Winter's only Post War return to Aldbourne, Wiltshire - The wartime home of the 506th PIR including Easy Company. Superb video, RiP Maj Dick Winters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marmite!! Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 The official Dick Winters website http://www.majordickwinters.com & Forum http://www.majordickwinters.com/phpBB3/index.php?sid=d9cd3008a58e6cb3a65898382bdf290f Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferret1958uk Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Oddly enough I was just talking about him last night to my lodger. Very sad news to hear of his passing. Rest in Peace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
private mw Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 very sad r.i.p a true hero .x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Runflat Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 There was a short piece on Radio 4's Today programme this morning. Here at about 1:21 http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00xgqx3/Today_15_01_2011/ Someone may care to transcribe the interview. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amphibi boy Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 May he rest in peace, as said he was a real genuine guy, and to so many a hero. In the series "band of brothers" when they spoke to him, and he told the story about his grandson, "grandpa, are you a hero" "no grandpa is'nt, but he served with a company of hero's". As he tells this he is obviously choked up, and sad, it just shows what an honourable man he is, ( and it always choke's me to watch that) like so many my grandfather also fought in normandy, and he was my hero. Unfortunately, the veterans that fought for our freedom, are slowly becoming the few, lets just hope that future generations continue tomstudy and learn what they all did for us, and why, and give them there respect. R.i.p. Major winters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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