Gung-ho and eager to prove himself. [WWII]

>With Mercier was a just-arrived replacement from Company F. Without [Speirs](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Speirs_3.jpg) or [Winters](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Richard_Winters.jpeg) knowing it, the young officer – gung-ho and eager to prove himself – had attached himself to the patrol. As he followed Mercier up the north bank of the river, he stepped on a Schu mine and was killed. He had been on the front line barely twenty-four hours. ________________________ **Source:** Ambrose, Stephen Edward. “The Patrol.” *Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest*. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2004. 230-31. Print. _______________________ **Further Reading:** [Lieutenant Colonel Ronald C. Speirs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Speirs) [Major Richard Davis "Dick" Winters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Winters)