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Waiting for the Bullets: when two German ME-109 pilots spared a badly-damaged American P-47
On December 17, 1944, Lt. Ed Cottrell's P-47 fighter was heavily shot up during a dogfight with 20+ Me 109s. What happened next is something that this 101-year-old remembers vividly and shares in this short interview featuring our latest art release, available autographed by Ed himself!
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Shifty Powers tells the sniper story from the battle of Foy in this short clip
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For the first time on film, Shifty Powers, the legendary Easy Company sharpshooter, tells the true story of his sniper encounter during the attack on Foy in January 1945. Featured within is our all-new artwork, "The Sharpshooter," by Larry Selman, which depicts Shifty and is available for purchase with the autographs of several Easy Company paratroopers on our site at: ValorStudios.com
The tank duel at the Cologne cathedral in the trailer for "Spearhead"
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After seeing his friends get cut down from the West Wall to the Bulge in their M4 Sherman tanks, elite gunner Clarence Smoyer is assigned the experimental T26 Pershing, armed with the 90mm gun he needs to keep his buddies alive. But with the new tank comes a deadly new role that culminates in a legendary tank duel at the Cologne cathedral. We now present to you the official trailer for Spearhea...
Back to Sainte Mere Eglise: A Band of Brothers D-Day experience
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On D-Day, Easy Company veteran Earl McClung parachuted into France and found himself with two men dead at his feet in mere minutes. This is his story, in his words, of that chaotic night and the insanity of the following days.
An incredible Christmas story from WWII
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Four days before Christmas 1943, in the darkest hours of WWII, a miracle took place. Two enemies-an American bomber pilot and a German fighter ace-met in combat over Germany and did the unexpected: They decided not to kill one another. Even more incredibly, as old men, they found one another and became best friends. "A Higher Call," a new book by Adam Makos, tells this story and more-it explore...
Bf 109 pilot Franz Stigler and B-17 pilot Charlie Brown's first meeting
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This film was taken when Bf-109 ace Franz Stigler met B-17 pilot Charlie Brown for the first time since their encounter during WWII! The complete story of Franz and Charlie can be read in the international bestselling book, "A Higher Call," available in bookstores worldwide. The song in this video is titled "End Titles (From ''The Peacemaker'')" by Hans Zimmer. It is available in the album, "Th...
Dick Winters reacts to the "Hang Tough, Bastogne" painting
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Major Dick Winters views John D. Shaw's painting "Hang Tough, Bastogne 1944", which depicts the Band of Brothers paratroopers of Easy Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne, for the first time.
Shifty Powers & Forrest Guth photo tribute
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A tribute of many never before seen snapshots of Easy Company, Band of Brothers, 101st Airborne veterans Shifty Powers & Forrest Guth. Photo highlights include Shifty as he returns to Bastogne for the first time since WWII, Forrest over Baghdad in a C-130, and many other shots celebrating these two amazing men!
One day Shifty looked out at the forest and noticed one tree that had not been there the day before. He told his sergeant. The tree was attacked and turned out to be a German listening post. One tree. Shifty noticed it.
In the background. People just casually driving by.
Honrar é preciso.
'If he'd a been close to the ground I wouldn't of seen his breath, cause of the snow.' Wow.
0:48 Ambrose wrote about this in Citizen Soliders - that allied veterans, to a man, remembered numerous duds, but that no Germans that he interviewed remembered duds falling on them. No statistical reports ever completed on the topic, but the speculation is that there was a considerable amount of sabotage committed by the enslaved labor force, obviously despite the threat to their own lives. The nature of human resistance in the face of evil never fails to astonish.
Just the courage to go back THERE in WINTER alone is staggering. RIP and thank you.
Watching this on D Day 80 eve at midnight. Incredible what they experienced.
Shifty: His biggest mistake was he was breathing...
During the Siege of Bastogne, Shifty was looking from his position at a clump of trees about a mile away. He noticed there was one additional tree that wasn't there the day before. He called on Lipton who passed it up, and an artillery liason officer came to see for himself and coordinated an artillery barrage on that one position. They obliterated what turned out to be a concealed 88mm flak gun position. All because Shifty noticed a new tree from nearly a mile away!
oh wow definitely NOT the first time either gentleman has shared these stories on film lol
TRULY THE GREATEST GENERATION RIP 🇺🇸
The 80s & 90s were good times for me. Chased after vets who had retired from a busy life and were thinking about where they been. They were happy to chat with anyone who would listen. I did. Best of all, in following them up through archives that became easily available I realized I had been in good company because none of them lied. God bless them all, the olong, the short and the tall .
Who is the other guy?
Legend says Dyke is still sitting behind that hay bale.
America’s badass Uncle
shifty's buddy there said that he thought the prisoners or slave laborers were putting horse manure in the shells, because so many didn't explode. They just might of been producing dud's on purpose. They probably saved a lot of lives, if that was the case. We may never know.
Stuff like that is kinda covered in Schindler's List, when Itzhak Stern tells Schindler that they're receiving a lot of complaints about their artillery, mortar and tank shells failing quality control, and that there are rumors of Schindler going around miscalibrating the machines himself. "If this factory ever produces a shell that can be fired, I'll be very unhappy."
GOD Bless these guys and all of the Soldiers, Marines, Sailors, Airmen, men and women and civilians, for their Service of WWII. THE SARGE
RIP Easy Company. Stand Down you heroes. Your memory lives on.
“Their slave labor must’ve been putting horse manure in the shells”. GANGSTA
God bless these guys for their courage and their ability to endure things that are almost impossible to endure.
i'm not crying
I think that's McClung with Shifty. McClung: "I think some of their slave labor was putting horse manure in their ammunition", lolol!
Learn something new every day. Stay low in the snow and they can’t see your breath. Looking for a hidden enemy in the cold look for their breath.
Incredible
All the men of Easy Company are together again. Stand easy, fellas.
Dam
I love earl and shifty!
These stories relate just how badly trained the Germans were at the end of the war. A trained sniper would have never exposed himself like that.
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I was a volunteer driver for the Canadian Red Cross for five years while recovering from an injury. What a privelege it was to transport a veteran. I had WW2 and Korean War veterans as my passengers; a pleasure to serve them.
That was Earl McClung with Shifty.
Earl "One Lung" McClung and Darrell "Shifty" Powers
Real life- good thing was there was no armor in the town just small arms. BoB- what do you see Lip? Armor and infantry lot of infantry!
Is the sound not working for anyone else? I can hear the intro music but nothing after.
It’s you (your setup).
So there were no Tiger tanks and 88s in Foy well that’s disappointing it makes Speirs run a little less spectacular.
Tanks and 88s weren't the problem ... the infantry was.
There were only about 1600 tigers of all variants made...apparently it was quite rare to run into one.
True heroes. You can combine all your athletes, singers, and celebrities, and still not equal one of these guys.
Well said!
I never get tired of hearing these brave men retelling of their stories and I'm glad that we have a record of their personal accounts now that they've passed on, seeing how priceless that record is.
Amen! God bless the people who were smart enough to interview our WW2 vets while they were still alive! Shifty, Speirs, Winters etc., and their personal recollections of the war and their sacrifices, will live on forever!
How fortunate we are to have men and women like Mr Powers in our armed forces. Does anybody know who the other Gent is?
‘One Lung’ McClung.
Staff Sergeant Earl "One-Lung" McClung, he only has a small part in the miniseries. He's the lead scout on the patrol across the river in Haguenau where Private Jackson gets killed.
What these men endured and the sacrifices that they made must always be remembered and respected.
Shifty grew up and lived near some of my family. I had the honor of meeting him and was able to get his autograph. He was as nice and humble as you can imagine. I hope and pray that he and all of his comrades are able to rest in peace now. They deserve that.
My family is from Wise County Virginia outside of Clintwood VA.
“Did you guys enjoy this?” Still got that dawg in him. Legends
I wonder if those unexploded rounds were made by Schindler’s Jews in his factory. if anyone remembers the stories he did that on purpose.
RIP gents the debt we owe all of you can never be repaid but generations to come must honour your memory.
Sounds like a rather different story than was depicted in BOB.
Right? No tanks or artillery? Better add some 88s and some Tigers!
Its not the first time German pilots spared Western Allied aircraft chances are they knew who was the real enemy was just like Patton knew.
Just shows how smart Shifty is and how good his eyesight was to tell the difference between breath up off the ground in the cold air vs. being down on the ground. That's the 2nd or 3rd story I've heard about him that is demonstrates how clever and how sharp his sniping was.
I read a story when they were in the Bastogne area. He noticed there were trees in a particular spot, that weren't there previously. So they lobbed some arty shells into the place, and the trees fell down, exposing an AA battery. In the middle of a forest, trees all look alike to most people, and he noticed the trees were new. That's crazy awareness.
When they were on the line outside Bastogne he noticed a tree that wasn't there the day prior, reported it and artillery was called in to drop a few rounds on what turned out to be an 88mm gun the Germans had moved in
Two American heroes who fought against evil in WW2! RIP to these fine soldiers of the US Army!
Rip to all the allies that fought evil in WW11.