D-Day Remembered

Today, on the anniversary of D-Day, a memorial statue isbeing dedicated to Major Richard D Winters and his fellow soldiers in Normandy,France. In the early hours of D-Day, June 6^th 1944, Major Winters parachuted into Normandy and led an attack on a Germanbattery firing down on the seaborne invasion force at Utah beach.

'There's no way of knowing how many lives Winters' outfitsaved when they took out those four artillery pieces firing down on Utah. Itwould have been hundreds.' - Shifty Powers, Easy Company

EASY COMPANY tellsthe story of the 506th PIR in the words of company veterans. It features over400 rare photographs; items of memorabilia including maps, diary extracts androsters; the late Major Winters' handwritten notes; a Foreword by Tom Hanks andAfterwords by Stephen Spielberg and James Madio.

'Call any one of those veteran soldiers by the term 'hero'and they will look away. Let's keep that term to ourselves and be content toflip through the pages of this book, seeing for ourselves in story after story,photo after photo what heroes look like.' - Tom Hanks

Left: Richard Winters, England, 1944, taken from EASYCOMPANY