The Dick Winters Leadership Monument in Normandy, France
May 29, 2019
Whenever I'm in Normandy, I always make a point to visit the Dick Winter's Leadership Monument. You can't miss it. It's right off the causeway on your way to Utah Beach. In many ways, I believe it represents all of the values and principles of leadership that should be recognized during any visit here, and in any study of D-Day and the Battle for Normandy. Here's a quick video from that monument to the young leaders who fought and won this monumental battle.
Paratroopers from 2d Battalion, 506th PIR loading for their Albany mission,
intended to jump on the DZ "C" in Hiesville at 0120 hours.
This photo was taken on Upottery airfield in Devon on the evening of June 5, 1944.
The aircraft is a C-47 (#42-93004 from 94th Squadron - 439th Troop Carrier Group -
Chalk number # 78 - serial # 12). The pilot (back) is 2nd Lt. Martin N. Neill.
2nd Lt. Carl E. George (co-pilot) helps the paratroopers to board.
William G. Olanie, Frank D. Griffin, Robert J. Noody, Lester T. Hegland
The 506th PIR was an experimental airborne regiment created in 1942 at Camp Toccoa
Georgia. Company missions were to involve being parachuted from C-47 transport
airplanes into hostile territory.8 dead American Soldiers lie, faces covered by parachutes, near their Horsa glider that
crashed in a grassy field at Holdy near Sainte Marie du Mont.
American soldiers head for the village of Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, positioned behind a
hedge--two move, the others stay under cover. A house on fire in the background.
