Hugh Jackes
Supporting Actor
Danny R asks "can anyone who has recently read the book tell me from a strategic point of view why Winters decided to do a one man charge"
I didn't think that he meant to charge alone. He told the men to go on the red smoke. I think that his smoke bomb sputtered a bit before really catching, and that he was so single-minded on his charge that he didn't realize the rest of his men were 20 steps behind him.
BTW, if you like Band of Brothers, visit a good war film from a few years ago, A Midnight Clear. It's about a platoon of soldiers in France around Christmas '44, who encounter a German platoon that wants to surrender. With Peter Berg, Kevin Dillon, Arye Gross, Ethan Hawke, and Gary Sinise how can you miss?
[Edited last by Hugh Jackes on October 02, 2001 at 05:49 PM]
[Edited last by Hugh Jackes on October 02, 2001 at 05:50 PM]
I didn't think that he meant to charge alone. He told the men to go on the red smoke. I think that his smoke bomb sputtered a bit before really catching, and that he was so single-minded on his charge that he didn't realize the rest of his men were 20 steps behind him.
BTW, if you like Band of Brothers, visit a good war film from a few years ago, A Midnight Clear. It's about a platoon of soldiers in France around Christmas '44, who encounter a German platoon that wants to surrender. With Peter Berg, Kevin Dillon, Arye Gross, Ethan Hawke, and Gary Sinise how can you miss?
[Edited last by Hugh Jackes on October 02, 2001 at 05:49 PM]
[Edited last by Hugh Jackes on October 02, 2001 at 05:50 PM]