2/10/2024 0 Comments Shifty powers|a World War, 1939-1945 |x Regimental histories |z United States. |a World War, 1939-1945 |x Campaigns |z Western Front. |a Shooters of firearms |0 |z United States |0 |v Biography. |a Soldiers |z United States |v Biography. |b Army |x Parachute troops |0 |x History |y 20th century. |a General Taylor's lottery - No ordinary country - The fun and the fear - Bulletproof - Faces set like flint - The things I had no words for - Orders - A blur of battles - Craziness - Only safe under the earth - Foy - Maybe we'll actually live - At war's end - The difference at home - How a man wrestles with war - The Band of Brothers - The last garden - Epilogue - Chart: Understanding Shifty's placement. |a New York : |b Berkley Caliber, |c 2011. He eventually came in contact with Floyd Talbert and the two found their way to Easy Company. Powers jumped into Normandy on D-Day and, like many other paratroopers that day, missed his drop zone. |a Shifty's war : |b the authorized biography of Sergeant Darrell "Shifty" Powers, the legendary sharpshooter from the Band of Brothers / |c Marcus Brotherton. Shifty Powers went to war with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. Shifty’s War is a tale of heroism and adventure, of a soldier’s blood-filled days fighting his way fromthe shores of France to the heartland of Germany, and the epic story of how one man’s skills as a sharpshooter and engagingly unassuming personality propelled him to a life greater than he could have ever imagined. He parachuted into France on D-day and fought for a month in Normandy eighty days in Holland thirty-nine in the harshly cold winter of Bastogne and for nearly thirty more near Haguenau, France, and the Ruhr pocket in Germany. As one of the original men who trained at Camp Toccoa, Georgia, Shifty was one out of only two soldiers in Easy Company to initially earn the coveted expert marksman designation. Little did Shifty know his finely-tuned skills would one day save his life-and the lives of his fellow paratroopers. As I jumped out the door, I could see that the left motor was on fire.' - Darrell Shifty Powers talking about jumping. 'I could hear bullets and shrapnel hitting the plane. For Twitterers, at the WLF Twitter (warriororg), we're using shiftypowers to raise awareness. Please blog, FaceBook and Twitter about Shifty. His father trained him to listen to the woods, to “see” without his eyes. Update July 20th, 2009: Today we're doing a Virtual Memorial for Shifty Powers. As a boy, Darrell “Shifty” Powers’s goal was to become the best rifle shot he could be. From D-Day to the Battle of the Bulge and more, here is the authorized biography of one of the most celebrated paratroopers of Easy Company, Sergeant Shifty Powers, the legendary sharpshooter from the Band of Brothers.
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