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look at dick smiling with his personalized wheaties box!!!!!!! HE'S SO HAPPY. HE DISPLAYED THAT THING FOR TWO YEARS ON THEIR MANTEL. IM CRYIN!! kingseed gave it as a gift during a time when general mills was doing an advertising promo where a person could get someone's face on the box. he had one made for dick.

when it was handed to him, dick was so baffled bc he didn't turn the box around and thought the guy was just giving him cereal. lmfao!!

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Pictured: A very topless (and fully clothed) Dick Winters doing jump training in Toccoa (Image Source: Major Dick Winters Files: Section I Toccoa to Normandy)

one of my fave things about dick is him shaking his fist at A Thing only to turn around and do exactly what he says he would Not Be Caught Dead Doing.

exhibit a: pooh-poohing the idea of joining the paratroopers until he's convinced by the image of the hard, lean, bronzed men of the outfit:

Dick's letter to DeEtta Jan. 22, 1942

“Now that it looks as if I might be going to [Fort] Benning, Trent’s dug up that old desire of his to be a member of the Parachute Troops. I’ve been telling him he’s nuts for that’s a suicide outfit.”

From Beyond Band of Brothers by Dick Winters and Cole Kingseed

“The more I looked at the paratroopers, the more I was inclined to join them as soon as I graduated from OCS. Of all the outfits I’d seen at Fort Benning, they were the best looking and most physically fit. After ten months of infantry training, I realized my survival would depend on the men around me. Airborne troopers looked like I had always pictured a group of soldiers: hard, lean, bronzed, and tough. When they walked down the street, they appeared to be a proud and cocky bunch exhibiting a tolerant scorn for anyone who was not airborne.”

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have we talked enough about the fact the knife dick had on him on dday—the only weapon he had on him on dday—was the knife nix gave him. as in the only weapon dick had to protect himself after being dropped into nazi occupied france, was the knife lewis had gifted him with their initials carved into it. cus i dont think we’ve talked about that enough.

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National WWII Museum Interviews of Easy Company members:

Compton

Freeman

Heffron

Guarnere

Lesniewski

Malarkey

Tipper

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I’m poking through Dick Winters’s memoir, and he’s so salty.

Early on before he goes in for officer training, his platoon leader is giving a lecture about the M-1 rifle while holding a Springfield rifle and you can just tell by the way he talks about the mistake that Dick was burning with irritation for the entire forty-five minutes.

And then he sat on that irritation for sixty years and wrote about it.

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ambrose: so winters and welsh were best friends in the war and they hung out in the same bunks and lead first platoon together and welsh was winters' xo once winters was captain oh and i guess this guy nixon was involved

major richard winters looking tom hanks in the eye: nixon was next to me every single waking moment of the war if he wasnt there i felt so lost and lovesick i became feral and i followed him home after the war. you know, like men, like normal ordinary men do with their sort of friend who i didnt bother talking much about the first time and i begrudging wrote his eulogy ugh what a pain. if you dont put me looking like im in love with nixon in the show im never talking to you again.

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This✨️

using the infamous malarkey ‘Mmh.’ to signify just how done i am with the situation at hand and how i desperately need to wear a beanie, regardless of the weather

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😍wow awesome!

Oh, that dog just ain't gonna hunt. Now, you cut that fence and get this goddamn platoon on the move!

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I don't need to go back to no aid station. Well, you're in luck, Penkala, we don't got no aid station.

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Dick Winter's full Letter to Charles Hudson. With the Love and Kisses "Dick" and other lovely things to say to your wounded Lieutenant like "for believe me---and this is no bull--I certainly did miss you, still do as a matter of fact", "get your fanny back here quick, see!!", and "incidentally you now stand in pretty damn good with the the bn. executive officer, namely me."

Sorry DeEtta he has a type and it's not WAVES

Also Dick was the censor for this letter. XOXOXO Winters.

Oh and this? I can't help but wonder if this is in reference to the racehorse...

Charlie Hudson for reference and a testament to Dick having good taste in men that look like Lewis Nixon. who stand out to him like Lewis Nixon in OCS

From Winter's Files on Lt. Hudson

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The first time I saw Skip Muck’s grave at the Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial, I just stood there and felt numb. I was with Dick Winters and Carwood Lipton, on a trip led by Stephen Ambrose. It was 1991. No tears. In fact, there’s a photo of three of us old vets standing at his grave and we’re all looking resolute. Soldiers, you know, posing for a picture taken by a historian who admired the hell out of us. I returned there in 2004 and remembered how when Roe asked if I wanted to see Skip, I’d said no. And when Winters asked if I wanted a break, I’d said no. I realized that since those moments, I’d grieved for everybody I’d lost except for one man, the man whose death I’d tried for decades to run away from, the man whose loss had hit me harder than all the rest. How many times had I looked at that 1942 photo of all of us at Toccoa, the one I’d written all the KIAs and SWAs on for those killed and seriously wounded, and thought, Why not me? Why no initials on my chest? Why not at Brécourt Manor, when I’d stupidly gone after what I thought was a Luger on that dead soldier? Or at Hell’s Corner, when German soldiers had our patrol outnumbered eight to three but wrongly assumed we had more firepower and surrendered to us? Or at Bastogne? If Winters hadn’t split Skip and me up, that would probably have been me, not Penkala, in that foxhole with Skip on January 9, 1944. But even if I’ve played the what-if game often, I know, deep down, that you can never win at it. Better to remember that, for whatever reason—God or fate or reading a Reader’s Digest article about paratroopers on a Greyhound bus heading for Astoria—I was privileged to serve with a company of men who would make me far more than I would have been without them. And that losing one of those men had hurt so badly that I’d buried the thought of him, thinking that somehow that would help me avoid the pain. Better, I’ve since learned, to turn into those waves and dive. So on that day in 2004 when I visited the cemetery where Skip is buried, I looked at that white marble cross and that name—Sgt. Warren H. Muck—and thought of the kid who swam the Niagara. The march to Atlanta. The smile. I knelt, placed flowers at the base of that cross. Prayed. All the things I’d done before when I’d come to see his grave. Only this time I did something different, long overdue, and hard but freeing. I cried sixty years’ worth of tears.

~ Don Malarkey

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#love this man #Richard Winters #so cute😂

In October 1944, Dick wrote a letter to one of the wounded men, 2nd Lt. Charles Hudson, and ended it with, "Love and kisses"

Relatives of Hudson wrote to Dick in 2001 and sent him a copy of his 1944 letter

(Source: The Richard D. Winters Collection, Box 8, the U.S. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.)

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#This is perfect #i love it

easy company - mr. bluesky

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The backseat of Car 1 will be complete chaos

And in Car 2 I can already sense the uncomfortable silence

easy company going on a road trip

winters and nix's car:

lip and speirs' car:

don't worry about web guys he's fine

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😂

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Awww