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Albert Blithe (June 25, 1923 – December 17, 1967) [2] [3] was an American career soldier who served as a private first class with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division during World War II.
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 ]
HAG logo HAG locomotive. HAG is a Swiss maker of model trains.The company was founded by Hugo and Alwin Gahler on 1 April 1944 in St. Gallen, Switzerland.. The Gahler brothers originally manufactured model trains in O scale but due to competition, particularly by Märklin H0 scale, began the transition to H0 in 1954 with their final O scale set being manufactured in 1957.
The brothers' father, Louis John Sutter, died on February 10, 2005, at the age of 73, following a lengthy illness. Many established hockey figures attended his funeral, including then- Edmonton Oilers general manager Kevin Lowe , then-Oilers coach Craig MacTavish , Mike Keenan , Hall of Famer Lanny McDonald and a busload of players from the ...
It is located in the center of the urban area of Meggen. It has two central platforms accessed by two through tracks and one dead-end track, as well as a branch to a factory in the northeast of the station. Since 2006, there has been a new station in the locality, Meggen Zentrum, which has a more central location.
Meggen Zentrum railway station (German: Bahnhof Meggen Zentrum) is a railway station in the municipality of Meggen, in the Swiss canton of Lucerne. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Lucerne–Immensee line of Swiss Federal Railways .
Walter Scott "Smokey" Gordon was born in Jackson, Mississippi.He enrolled at Millsaps College around 1940, attending there for 2 years. [2]Due to colorblindness and flat feet, the Marines and the Navy had rejected him, so he joined the Army. [3]
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 ...