Returning to Normandy: The Richard D. Winters Leadership Monument Project
Presented by SERKET USA in cooperation with The WWII Foundation. Featuring Easy Company Band of Brothers veterans Al Mampre, Ed Doc Pepping, Frank Perconte, and Herb Suerth, Jr. Also featuring Trey Harris, Tim Gray, and Governor Tom Ridge. Filmed on location in Los Angeles, CA; Chicago, IL; Paris, France; and Normandy, France. The monument dedication ceremony was filmed just outside Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, Manche, on June 6, 2012, the 68th anniversary of D-Day.
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Project Title: Returning to Normandy: The Richard D. Winters Leadership Monument Project
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Director's Statement -- June 6, 2013 -- Today is the 69th anniversary of D-Day. A year ago today, I stood just outside Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, Manche, in Normandy, France, and captured to video the unveiling of the Richard D. Winters Leadership Monument.
I've spent a year now working on the short documentary Returning to Normandy and as I sit here preparing its world premiere, I must admit that this project has rewarded me greatly, in many, many different ways: from the countries it's taken me to, to the new friends I've made. The single greatest reward that I am taking away from this project, however, is reverence. Reverence for our veterans. Reverence for the soldiers who volunteered. Reverence for the men who risked their lives, and gave their lives, for that hard-won, yet incredibly fragile thing we call freedom.
It's not that I didn't greatly respect them before, but it doesn't matter how many Band of Brothers books that you read, or Saving Private Ryan films that you watch, when you walk the still-scarred earth of Pointe du Hoc, touch the sands of Utah and Omaha Beach, and walk the hallowed grounds of the Normandy American Cemetery it changes you, it rips thankful tears from your eyes, it makes the sacrifices of our Greatest Generation wholly tangible.
To say that this project and the absolute experience of creating, directing, producing, and shepherding this project has left an indelible impression upon me would be a profound, staggering understatement. To our veterans -- all of our veterans -- both past and present, I offer a humble, yet entirely sincere and heartfelt THANK YOU. And to all those soldiers that never made it home: may God bless you and keep you.
Returning to Normandy: The Richard D. Winters Leadership Monument Project (Trailer)
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Info: Trailer for the documentary short film Returning to Normandy: The Richard D. Winters Leadership Monument Project presented by SERKET USA, Inc. Featuring interviews with Easy Company Band of Brothers veterans Al Mampre, Ed Doc Pepping, and Frank Perconte. Filmed on location in Chicago, IL; Paris, France; and Normandy, France. The monument dedication ceremony was filmed just outside Sainte-Marie-du-Mont on June 6, 2012, the 68th anniversary of D-Day.
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Maj. Dick Winters statue unveiled in France [1080p]
On June 6, 2012—the 68th anniversary of D-Day—a statue of Maj. Dick Winters was unveiled in the Normandy village of Sainte-Marie-du-Mont. Winters was the commander of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division after they parachuted into Normandy on June 6, 1944. His heroism and leadership was documented in the Stephen Ambrose book and mini-series Band of Brothers. A young student named Jordan Brown—who lives just a few miles from Winters' Pennsylvania home—raised $99,000 selling armbands stamped with a phrase Winters used: Hang Tough. The money was used to help pay for the statue of the late Mr. Winters that now looks over the Normandy countryside.
From CBS News.
Clarification: The Grandpa, were you a hero story was not Winters' own story. He was recalling a letter he received from a fellow Easy Company veteran, Sgt. Mike Ranney. But I still cry every time I hear it.
Hommage au monument Winters - Sainte-Marie-du-Mont - Utah Beach
Le 7 juin 2015 au matin, l'association DDay-Overlord a été invitée à participer à une cérémonie organisée par la WW2 Foundation au pied du monument Winters à Sainte-marie-du-Mont, en présence des acteurs de la série Band of Brothers et du vétéran George Klein qui, a combattu à la Pointe du Hoc.
David F. Alfonso Speech at Major Dick Winters Monument Ceremony - June 6, 2012 Normandy
David F. Alfonso Speech at Major Dick Winters Monument Ceremony - June 6, 2012 - St. Marie du Mont, France - WWII Foundation
WWII Battlefieds: Chapter III: D-Day area Normandy, France Part II ''E'' Company Monument
Objective:
As a result of the crash of a C-47 killing its company commander, Thomas Meehan III, command of Company E, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division devolved to the company executive officer, 1st Lt. Richard Winters. After linking up with his parent unit at the hamlet of Le Grand Chemin on the morning of June 6, 1944, Winters was ordered up front away from his company. With minimal instructions of There's fire along that hedgerow there. Take care of it, and no briefing, Winters found himself tasked to destroy a German artillery battery. The battery had initially been reported to be 88 mm guns firing onto causeway exit #2 leading off Utah Beach and disrupting landing forces of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division advancing inland on this route. Several other units had stumbled onto the German position earlier in the morning and had been repulsed.
After a reconnaissance by Winters at about 0830, he collected a team of thirteen men from his own and other companies. Beyond knowledge of the general location of the gun emplacements south of Le Grand Chemin and without information of the other side of the hedgerow, Winters' team attacked Brecourt Manor, located three miles southwest of Utah Beach and north of the village of Sainte-Marie-du-Mont. There he discovered No. 6 Battery of the 90th Artillery Regiment, consisting of four 105 mm howitzers connected by trenches and defended by a platoon of soldiers.
Winters held that the unit was part of the 6th Fallschirmjägerregiment (6th Parachute Regiment) with emplaced MG42 machine guns. The 1st Battalion of the 6th had been ordered to Sainte Marie-du-Mont from Carentan during the afternoon but arrived after dark. The 1st Company 919th Grenadier Regiment (709th Infantry Division) was posted at Sainte Marie-du-Mont and was responsible for the area. Elements of 1058th Grenadier Regiment (91st Luftlandedivision) were defending throughout the vicinity, and the artillery was part of this division also. The 795th Georgian Battalion, attached to the 709th ID, was to the northwest at Turqueville but is less likely to have been present because of terrain difficulties. Whichever unit defended the battery, the U.S. paratroopers were opposed by approximately sixty German soldiers.
The crew originally assigned to the four 105mm guns had apparently deserted during the night of the airborne landings. Oberstleutnant Frederich von der Heydte of the German 6th Parachute Regiment, upon discovering they had been abandoned while observing the landings at Utah Beach, traveled to Carentan where he ordered his 1st Battalion to find men and work on the artillery battery.
Battle:
Upon arrival at the battery location, Winters made his plan. He positioned a pair of M1919 .30 caliber machine guns for covering fire and sent several soldiers (2nd Lt. Lynn D. Compton, Pvt. Donald Malarkey and Sgt. William J. Guarnere) to one flank to destroy a machine gun position with grenades and provide covering fire.
While the trenches connecting the artillery positions provided the Germans with an easy way to supply and reinforce the guns, they also proved to be their biggest weakness. After destroying the first gun position, Winters and the rest of his team used the trenches as covered approaches to attack the remaining guns in turn. Each gun was destroyed by placing a block of TNT down its barrel and using German stick grenades to set off the charges.
Reinforcements from Company D, led by 2nd Lt. Ronald C. Speirs, arrived to complete the assault on the fourth and last gun. Speirs had a reputation as an excellent and extremely aggressive officer and he led his men against the last gun position by running outside the trenches and exposing themselves to enemy fire.
After the four guns were disabled, Winters' team came under heavy machine-gun fire from Brécourt Manor and withdrew. He had discovered a German map in one gun position that was marked with the locations of all German artillery and machine gun positions throughout that area of the Cotentin Peninsula. This was an invaluable piece of intelligence, and once Winters returned to Le Grand Chemin passed it on to the 2nd Battalion intelligence officer (S-2) (and close personal friend) Lt. Lewis Nixon. Nixon, realizing this to be an essential piece of intelligence, ran the 3 miles to Utah Beach and passed the information up the chain of command. Command was so thrilled with the information provided by Nixon and Winters that it sent the first two tanks to reach Utah Beach to support the paratroopers
f000038 Hiesville / Audouville-la-Hubert / Sainte-Marie-du-Mont / Manche / Stanhoe / Angleterre
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Support: Bobine
Taille: 271 Mo
Durée: 9:19 min
Cameraman: Ridgell
Unités: 7th US Corps / 101st Airborne Divison / 326th Medic Co / 4th Infantry Division / 9th Infantry Division / 82nd Airborne Division
Date: 06-juin-44
Localisations: Hiesville / Audouville-la-Hubert / Sainte-Marie-du-Mont / Manche / Stanhoe / Angleterre
Personnages: Collins / Eddy / Roosevelt
Thèmes: Hôpital Colombière / Asiatique / Hôpital Brécourt / Blessé / Parachutiste / Prisonnier / Jeep / Fleur / Cadavre
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8 yo sings the National Anthem at Dday memorial for Major Richard Dick Winters - Saint Marie Du Mont, Normandy, France
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Memorial Ceremony (including Roman Catholic Mass) for fallen US troops,on June 10, 1944 during World War 2. The location is Omaha Beach, St. Laurent sur Mer, Normandy France, where the U.S. 1st Army established the first American military cemetery in France, during World War II. US troops line the area. An altar is set up on the hood of a jeep parked in the sand. An Army Colonel standing in rear of the jeep reads from a notebook. Soldiers all stand with heads bowed. Among them are African American soldiers of the 320th Battalion. A Chaplain's assistant sits at a keyboard instrument next to the jeep. A Roman Catholic Army Chaplain in white clerical robes conducts a mass. Numerous grave markers can be seen in the distant background. Several French civilians stand with the soldiers, who bow heads in prayer. The Chaplain administers holy communion to kneeling soldiers. A French civilian woman places flowers near recent temporary grave markers of US fallen (stakes bearing their dog tags). A color guard stands with American flag, as squad of riflemen fire gun salutes. Three French civilians stand by the flowers. US Army bugler blows taps. All present salute the fallen. Some indivual soldiers walk to the markers of their buddies. Location: Normandy France. Date: June 10, 1944.
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Band of Brothers Carentan Locations 2016 HD
We followed in the footsteps of Easy Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne.
I have juxtaposed scenes from Band of Brothers Episode Carentan with the actual locations at Sainte-Marie-Du-Mont, Carentan Cafe De Normandie, Dick Winters First Aid dressing station and Audouville La Hubert, the site where Captain Speirs was alleged to have shot German prisoners.
We visited on 23 May 2016 with Battlefield Guide Allan Bryson.
Original Soundtrack by Michael Kamen
Major Richard (Dick) Winters
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The Girl Who Wore Freedom | Sweet Memories in Ste. Marie du Mont
On June 6, 1944, the Germans had occupied Dany's town for four years. She'd grown up knowing nothing but food rations and Nazi rule. As the US servicemen landed on France’s Utah Beach and streamed through Ste. Marie du Mont, many stooped to give her candy, gum, and chocolate--delights the five-year-old had never before experienced. It signaled a turn in life as she knew it...a new world of freedom, gratitude, and opportunity. And it forged a life-long bond with the servicemen who liberated her community.
This clip is bittersweet as we mourn the death of one of our dedicated re-enactors. Daniel Madelaine succumbed to cancer in 2018. We were honored to work with him this summer in Normandy, and he will be dearly missed.
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Normandy 2012
A short movie i made with pictures i took during my stay in Normandy. Including pictures of the parachute jump at La Fière, the Richard Winters Leadership monument and C-130 planes at Utah Beach.
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Richard Winters
Richard D. Dick Winters (January 21, 1918 – January 2, 2011) was a United States Army officer and decorated war veteran. For a time he commanded Company E, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, during World War II, eventually rising to command of the entire 2nd Battalion.
Winters parachuted into Normandy in the early hours of D-Day, and fought across France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and eventually Germany. Later in the war, Winters rose to command the 2nd Battalion. Following the German surrender, he left the 506th and was then stationed in France where senior officers were needed to oversee the return home. In 1951, during the Korean War, Winters was recalled to the U.S. Army from the inactive list and briefly served as a regimental planning and training officer on staff at Fort Dix, New Jersey. Winters was issued orders for deployment and was preparing to depart for Korea, but instead left the Army under a provision that allowed officers who had served in World War II but had been inactive since to resign their commission.
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Maj. Richard Winters bronze statue dedicated in Ephrata, Pa. #EphReviewof his likeness
About 750 people came out in Ephrata on Memorial Day to honor local hero Maj. Richard Winters. They witnessed the dedication of a 700-pound statue of his likeness at the Ephrata Veteran's Plaza and Major Richard Winters Leadership Memorial.
The statue replicates one unveiled 3,500 miles away in Normandy, France, honoring all junior U.S. officers who's leadership on June 6, 1944, helped establish an Allied foothold in Europe. This video shows the Winters Leadership Memorial, the centerpiece of a new Veterans’ Plaza which honors all soldiers from all wars. It is a replica a statue in Winter’s likeliness that stands near the village of Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, France.
Winters, who grew up in Ephrata, led a small group of men against a platoon of about 50 German troops in one of the most effective trench assaults of the D-Day invasion. His story is told in the critically acclaimed HBO mini-series “Band of Brothers.”
Hang Tough: Dick Winters in Normandy - St Mere Eglise
St. Mere Eglise is video of re-enactors driving through the streets ahead of the 68th anniverary of the D-Day invasion.
Stephen Spears talks about choice of Richard D. Winters for leadership sculpture
Stephen Spears talks about choice of Richard D. Winters for leadership sculpture
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The story of the U.S. Army Rangers that scaled the cliffs of Pointe Du Hoc on D-Day and the price they paid, along with why the vaunted Atlantic Wall ultimately failed.
Ken's Thompson Stories - As Promised Teaser
Minnesota WWII Veteran Ken Krueger tells a few stories about his Thompson machine gun to a group of French reenactors portraying US Army Signal Corps soldiers. Recorded June 5th, 2011 at Ste-Marie-du-Mont, Normandy, France as part of the production of the documentary, As Promised: Return to Fénétrange.