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William J. Guarnere Sr. (April 28, 1923 – March 8, 2014) was a United States Army paratrooper who fought in World War II as a non-commissioned officer with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division.
Band of Brothers is a 2001 American [2] war drama miniseries based on historian Stephen E. Ambrose's 1992 non-fiction book of the same name. [3] It was created by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, who also served as executive producers, and who had collaborated on the 1998 World War II film Saving Private Ryan. [4]
The band's first record was released on the Hideout Records label in 1965, when Suzi and Patti Quatro were 15 and 17 years old, respectively. Both sides of their first single, "Never Thought You'd Leave Me" b/w "What a Way to Die", have some prominence.
Quatro joined, too, and assumed the stage name of Suzi Soul; Patti Quatro was known as Patti Pleasure. Suzi sang and played bass in the band. The band also later featured another sister, Arlene. [16] Many of their performances were in cabarets, where attention was (initially) focused more on their physical looks than their actual music.
In Marcus Brotherton's 2009 book We Who Are Alive and Remain: Untold Stories from the Band of Brothers, several Easy Company veterans offered differing views of how Sobel was portrayed in Band of Brothers. Ed Tipper praised Sobel's stamina, saying he could run Currahee "with the best of them," [32] and Shifty Powers said, "He trained us well ...
The Wood Brothers, an American folk band consisting of brothers Chris & Oliver Wood, as well as multi-instrumentalist Jano Rix The Woolies , an American rock band from Lansing, Michigan , with brothers Bob Baldori & Jeff Baldori, whose cover of " Who Do You Love? " became a regional hit when it was released as a single in 1966
And so, June quit the band in 1973. A revamped lineup featuring Patti Quatro (sister of Suzi) released one more Fanny album without her, the ironically titled Rock and Roll Survivors, in 1974.That ...
Camp Toccoa (formerly Camp Toombs) was a basic training camp for United States Army paratroopers during World War II, located five miles (8 km) west of Toccoa, Georgia.Among the units to train at the camp was the 506th Infantry Regiment.