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Darrell Cecil "Shifty" Powers (13 March 1923 – 17 June 2009) [1] was a non-commissioned officer with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division during World War II. Powers was portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers by Peter Youngblood Hills.
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.
There he befriended Darrell "Shifty" Powers. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Wynn and Powers along with others in the vocational school were shipped to Navy Shipyard at Portsmouth to work on the battleships. [3] Right before they were about to be frozen to the job, Wynn and Powers enlisted in the army and volunteered for the paratroopers. [3]
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The officer fatally shot him after he reportedly took the officer's baton and hit him over the head. The second suspect, aged 16, was arrested. [96] [97] 1993-01-28: Hunter, Charles James (30) Texas (Abilene) Hunter, who reportedly took a 5-year-old boy hostage, stopped breathing after allegedly fighting police officers who were trying to ...
After getting into an argument with his wife, a man shot her daughter and killed her son-in-law before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Panama City, Fla. police said on Monday, Dec. 16.
The man arrested in the three killings, Oscar Sanchez Garcia, 25, has been charged with two counts of murder and faces a third count, Dallas County jail records show. He is being held on $4 ...
Darrell "Shifty" Powers recalled one time Gordon gave his last cigarette to Talbert, but charged him a dime for a match. [8] When Gordon found out that Talbert was disqualified from receiving Purple Heart for a wound received when Tab was mistakenly bayoneted by another Easy Company trooper, he put together a makeshift ceremony with Paul Rogers ...