”I remember the broad, open fields outside Foy,” Speirs wrote in a 1991 letter, “where any movement brought fire. A German 88 artillery piece was fired at me when I crossed the open area alone. That impressed me.”
Standing at the site in 1991 with Winters and Malarkey, Lipton remembered Spiers’s dash. He also recalled that when they got to the outbuildings of Foy, Speirs wanted to know where I Company was. “So he just kept on running right through the German line, came out the other side, conferred with the I Company C.O., and ran back. Damn, that was impressive.”
Source:
Ambrose, Stephen Edward. “The Breaking Point.” Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2004. 211. Print.
Further Reading:
Lieutenant Colonel Ronald C. Speirs
Major Richard Davis "Dick" Winters
Technical Sergeant Donald George Malarkey
First Lieutenant Clifford Carwood Lipton
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