Col. Sink's memo that
was given to each 506th
PIR trooper prior to 1942
   Christmas furlough.

 

 

The famous Life Magazine
   issue profiling the new
        US Paratroops

 

 

Shadowboxes for each Easy
Company Veteran. The 
shadowboxes are assembled
     by Frank DeAngelis

 

           Forrest Guth, Shifty Powers, 
          Herb Suerth and Ed Shames

 

The following Easy Company veterans
are presented with their Framing History
frame of "Rendezvous With Destiny -
Ike and the 101st Airborne, Evening of
June 5, 1944."


                        Ed Joint

 


                  Bill Maynard



               William Wingett


              Henry Zimmerman

 



The Currahee Military Museum
accepts a frame of "Rendezvous
    With Destiny", a gift from
   The Men of Easy Company
       and Framing History

 

Currahee Military Museum Pg. 2

 

 

Shifty Powers explained that all he has left of his uniform is his Ike jacket.
The rest of his uniform, as well as his pay and German pistol collection,
disappeared when he was in the now-famous vehicle accident on his way
back to the U.S.  Shifty is a great guy...just as nice as he is in the
Band Of Brothers DVD interviews.

 

                                  A few of the displays at the Currahee Military Museum

 


   A trooper's Dogtags, D-Day Cricket, Compass, and German barbed wire from Omaha Beach

 

 


Third Platoon's Paul Rogers accepts his frame while Frank DeAngelis looks on. Like the rest
of Easy Company, Frank and Paul are top-notch guys. Paul talked at length about the fine men
he served with, and especially those who didn't make it back home. He did shed some light on
how Earl McClung got his nickname of "One Lung". As related by Paul - "Jimmy Alley and I
were taking a break when Captain Hester came up to us, pointed to an abandoned .30 caliber
machine gun that was on the ground, and asked "Who's going to carry that Browning?"
We looked around and saw McClung asleep nearby. We told the Captain "It's his" and pointed
to McClung! Needless to say, Earl wasn't very pleased when he found out what he had to lug
around. Alley and I then came up with the quote which we repeated over and over -
"Who hung the gun on One-Lung McClung?" We repeated our phrase many times as McClung
hauled that gun around!"

The rest, as they say, is history.
 

                                 Stable location prior to move to Toccoa

 

Wild Bill Guarnere adds his signature to those of his Easy Company comrades.

 

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