Band of Brothers: Crossroads

This picture was taken on the road leading from the dike down to the Neder Rhine at the Crossroads on The Island. If you remember in Band of Brothers, WInters charged across the field and began firing into the Germans by himself, fully exposed. Then the other men arrived and fired into the Germans huddled there. A machine gun was keeping them pinned down. The Germans were actually in this field and pinned down along the dike you see running from right to left.

 

So, imagine men crowded on that hillside and men lying in front of you, including the one sentry Winters encountered.

 

Then from the distance by the trees in the background and over the dike from the right, other Germans, who had been part of the attack that killed Major Horton came streaming over.

 

By the way, after the attack, the men of Easy were redeployed to attack down to the river. Winters was worried about being flanked by Germans returning from their raid, over from the area by the trees, and he pulled them out

 

 

To all fans, my book, "From Toccoa to the Eagle's Nest: Discoveries in the Boosteps of the Band of Brothers" is now available on Amazon, Booksurge and Alibris Thanks Dalton

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