Have you ever wished that you could sit and watch the Band of Brothers with one of the men from Easy Company? An episode of American Artifact, “RARE Commentary from Dick Winters on Band of Brothers!!!”, on The History Underground YouTube channel, gives you just this opportunity.
The video footage and audio recordings are the “digital artifacts” that Erik Dorr, the Curator of the of The Gettysburg Museum of History, found in the museum’s archives. In the episode you can hear Major Winters talking about the men of Easy Company, as well as commenting on scenes from the Band of Brothers HBO series. As he says:
“Today, I’d like to share with you the memories of the men of Company E that are still alive and those that have passed on before us. I want to talk about all of their experiences in WWII from Normandy through to the taking of Berchtesgaden at the end of the war.”
He also talks about his friendship with Stephen Ambrose. As he says in the video:
“Stephen Ambrose, the leading historian of our time, has changed my life forever. Through his friendship and through his writing of the Band of Brothers.”
There is even a voicemail from Stephen Ambrose talking about Tom Hanks wanting to buy the rights to Ambrose’s book Band of Brothers to turn it into a 12-part series for HBO.
“RARE Commentary from Dick Winters on Band of Brothers!!!” is 1:40 minutes so be sure to settle in for this extraordinary time with Major Winters.
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