A Company of Heroes

A blog dedicated to the memory of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne. Featured here will be pictures of the original World War 2 company as well as excerpts from the various books and biographies written about (and by) its members. Submissions are always welcome - indeed, they are encouraged! To avoid double posting, please refer to our tags page. :)

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Ed Joint

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Lipton, Malarkey and Winters at Skip Muck's grave

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Eugene Roe's discharge papers

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Skip Muck in training

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A rare photo of Dick Winters (taken in 1942 for his official ID), courtesy of Jake Powers' twitter

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Dick Winters at Camp Mackall, spring 1943.

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Grace Nixon, Dick Winters, Ethel Winters and Tom Hanks at the 2002 Emmy Awards

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A reunion ten years after the war.

Bottom row, left to right: Bill Guarnere, Chuck Grant, Harry Welsh, George Luz

Top row (standing): Ken Baldwin, Dick "Red" Wright, Babe Heffron, Shifty Powers

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George Luz and Bill Guarnere

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Skip Muck at Toccoa

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Ed and Sally Joint at the Normandy premiere of the Band of Brothers series

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Clancy Lyall

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Dick Winters (possibly before the Market Garden jump; do correct me if I'm wrong!)

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Moose Heyliger

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Clancy Lyall at an event with the Easy veterans

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Jack McGrath with Ambrose's book

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Skip Muck in training