Don’t drink and take sniper fire! Or do, whatever.

>Another problem emerged, one that was to plague the airborne forces throughout the next year. Every liberated village in France, and later in Belgium, Holland, Germany, and Austria, was full of wine, cognac, brandy, and other fine liquor, of a quality and in a quantity quite unknown to the average enlisted man. >[Pvt. Shifty Powers](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Shifty2.jpg) and a friend found a wine shop in St. Côme-du-Mont. They broke in and began sampling bottles, “to find the kind we liked.” They took a bottle each and went out back to drink in peace. “Every once in a while there’s a sniper trying to shoot us, and he’s trying to ricochet one in on us, and we would hear that bullet hit and ricochet around, we kind of enjoyed that.” _____________________________ **Source:** Ambrose, Stephen Edward. “Move Out!” *Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest*. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2004. 90. Print. _____________________________ **Further Reading:** [Staff Sergeant Darrell C. "Shifty" Powers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Powers)