Dick Winters explains Band of Brothers crossroads assault true story

Dick Winters explaining his famous crossroads assault. Video credit to Band of Brothers and Patrick Johnson. Edit by me of course!

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[johnrivera]

The German troop lived out the old saying “When death gazes into your soul, smile back”.

[shelbyseelbach]

He carried that memory until the day he died and lived with it everyday. War is hell.

[MKshaboygin]

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
- Plato

[kokoeteantigha]

The young soldier had that "Oh sh!t" moment! All he could do was smile a brief second before death. Very heartbreaking.

[rayturp]

He smiled because he knew it was finally over for him. This old man has suffered ever since.

[kadenthoreson]

People say he smiled because he knew it was over (which may be true) but I can't help but think that due to the hesitation before winters shot, the young soldier was thinking "he didn't shoot right away, maybe he's not gonna kill me" which is a lot darker and I can't help but only think about that.

[davidrubio]

My 5th grade teacher was a WW 2 vet. He once said that war is hell and you live with the things you do. He was with his platoon and a Japanese soldier started running toward my teacher with his bayonet. Without thinking, my teacher raised his rifle and shot the Japanese soldier. My teacher said he never forgot the look on the soldiers face. It haunted him every day

[vivianbenge]

My father revealed his own unique versions of this kind of experience. He carried so much pain with him to the grave and still had PTSD flashbacks into his early 50s, at least. I can only pray that he and all soldiers find peace when they crossed over.

[maryvalentine]

War is so dreadful. It puts good men in an altered reality where everything normal is turned upside down. I have no doubt that that smiling German haunted him to the day he died.❤

[cmanmaxwell]

This is so deeply disturbing that almost every man in war carries memories like these.

[Orc-icide]

When your brain sees a sudden danger and calculates that there's no escape... You smile

[Godwinson]

'Humility', That's a quality that makes a great and dependable person . RIP Dick Winters.

[John-mfky]

Had a chance to meet one of the last living easy company vets before he passed when I worked at a veterans home. These men were a different breed.

[negativecreep]

My great grandfather fought in WW2 and said that he had to listen to his best friend get eaten alive by the Japanese while all he could do was hide and listen to his blood curdling screams

He cried every time he told that story like it had happened yesterday

He was a hard man and grew a hatred towards the Japanese, but he came to think some were alright because he had neighbours that were Japanese and would bring home cooked meals over for him and my great grandmother

At first he was reluctant to accept them but he eventually came around

No one blamed him for his feelings towards the Japanese since he had gone through such unspeakable horrors during his service in Papua New Guinea

[PhilosophyRob]

Ive watched this series way too many times but i love it.
I was 13 when it came out living in a children's home and i would be allowed to stay up 1 day a week to watch it.
35 now and watched it not long ago. So many famous actors i never noticed at 13

[airbornegrunt]

As a combat soldier too, I guarantee that smile haunted him for the rest of his life. It's heart wrenching, but he did what he had to do, as many others.

[JohnnyReb]

It always makes me cry a bit when I think of something that one of the Easy Company guys said in an interview about fighting the German soldier. "He probably would've liked to hunt". In better circumstances they could've been hunting buddies.

RIP to Dick Winters and the Unknown Soldat.

[Gibson]

If you read or listen to anything abput or by Maj. Winters his empathy always shines through. He truly was the biggest brother of E Company.

[austinleroy]

Band if brothers really opened my eyes on what everyone went thru in the wars

[graceygrumble]

My dad was working in Armstrong's factory during a bombing raid.
He had just clocked-off and was walking across the bridge when the bombs started dropping.
"Carl Lewis could not have beaten me across that bridge that night! It was as if time stood still, and only I moved".
This clip brought back that memory. My dad was only a 15 year-old boy.