Hello and welcome to another episode of the World War II podcast to Amings Wallace.

Since the HBO miniseries' band of brothers aired in 2001, Major Dick Winters of the 101st

Airborne has garnered international acclaim.

His exploits hit key moments of the Northwestern European campaign in 1944-45 as he took part

in Dede, Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge.

A modest hero, he epitomises the notion of dignified leadership.

Now Winters was a fairly prolific letter-writer and one person he wrote to regularly was a young

lady called theeta al-Mum.

After the war, they lost touch, but upon the release of the Stephen Ambrose book band of

brothers, theeta got in touch with Winters and presented him with all the letters he'd

written to her during the war.

In this episode, I'm joined by Eric Doar and Gerard Friedrich.

Eric is the owner and curator of the Gettysburg Museum of History, which houses a Dick Winters

collection.

Gerard is a professional historian and lecturer.

With Eric, they have written Hang Tuff, a unique view of Dick Winters' based around the

letters to deeta that are now housed at the Gettysburg Museum of History.

Thanks for joining me.

This is going to be a slightly different lens we'll be viewing, Dick Winters, but I wonder

if we should start before the war and before he's even met deeta.

What's Winters' background?

How did he find himself in the army?

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