Dick Winters reacts to the "Hang Tough, Bastogne" painting

so so it was a it was a terrific experiment to say the least okay and that's why we have all these signatures on the street okay so now this is for John Shaw you have to see the bank got someone even Hank Zimmerman well bill and babe ever yeah great so this is actually most signatures on any of the paintings that we've had right so it's missing one one big one up here but we know where that guy can be found and here we go Oh it's a who's our artist here John Shaw and then he had you tick did the ricin he's gotten he's got you dead to right on that with vinegar well this is a this is John's crash now John is of course that we fan of dicks and that's John's Oh work up there also the red one so what he wanted to do this time we had a lot of talk a lot of conversation about it he wanted to make the guys amorphous kind of a general genera not specifically except for this guy okay she said got a dick needs to be portrayed but the other guys since we have so many fellows who were alive right now here at that Selma can you pick him can you pick me out of a new picture you can he how you doing me god shape that's true right that's true better but I mean that's a dead ringer for you though that's your clip alcohol in there we got a shaved up Norman where is your dad that's really well done you can see back here in the background deck the guy's filtering filtering through the lines the trees in the background you can see the trees straight up John had pictures and we had taken two years before we went over on a 60th anniversary remember dick you helped us beside some prints that we get over there we we took Compton malarkey car near Efron shifty powers and Roma clung over to over to Bastogne with US military we actually had a visit with US military down in the Frankfurt area and we all went up they came up in buses and we were in the Bois Jacques woods with all these military people and it was snowing this was about 17th of December so appropriately was cold and snowing tortured yep and who came over but some other folks visited us here are two commanders two officers German Wehrmacht officers were there also going through the woods and we brought them over to visit with the e company guys in the woods in their old fighting positions order for tulips and we got that on camera and some of the discourse that went on between these guys was just absolutely fantastic the best one was Oerlikon saying to this german guy after they warmed up shifting or were not too excited about having them there but the US military got has all the soldiers that were there they they were just you know over the what was going on so then finally girl says you know tell this guy you know what the hell was the matter with them you know there were so few of us over here you could have brought his guys over and wiped us out anytime he wanted to so that the young lieutenant translates that out to him and he starts chuckling and he was just a Korean guy you know through the varied hat and the whole deal and he said no no no no you don't understand you the Eagle heads you the Eagle heads I did not want to come over here his men were afraid to come across the road because the Eagle heads were over there and then the next day some of the guys came home shifted Earl decided they were going to stay with us for three more days so on the 19th we went up back into the woods that night it's snow and it was terribly cold and we were in the woods with them with our cameras interviewing them and the whole Ground was just covered with snow and and they were just telling us stories and it was they were back there I mean it was very easy for them to get to be right back into and that was there each of them that was our first time back into the body positions so we took a lot of pictures and John use those pictures of the torso the poorest that you see here is very much Rita Bojack it's very much real and John has the MLR is down here let's see where is the highway yeah right here where it's a little bit light that's that's the area Floyd so he's got it depicted from some of the stuff that we had talked about there yeah what are your visits on the 24th yeah I John doesn't care whether people think it's morning or afternoon one sometime that day it's even in the book that you had went and visited the MLR and I guess I was after the fight that took place that day like when Gordon was hit I believe ruining my and so this John depicted the guys kind of talking to dick after the action just giving him some after-action information some of the guys remember doing that and then the rest of the guys are filtering back into their positions so this is a little bit back from the from the tree line Wow and that's what he did it he decided that he wanted to make sure that each of the men men are portrayed except for dick could be general enough that anyone could see themselves in depiction and of course the guys in the back the same way so when we had that we had the painting on the pedestal we had we had fellas coming up and saying well that's Perconte don't know that know that that's Heffron and in while bill said that's me over there yeah it was jet it was just a riot they were all finding themselves in the picture and and they just had a great time you know and for shame sakes this is him and then a lot of folks they said think it's rod Spears this is an officer we've got sergeant we've got private to John put you know all three the ranks or some so that's how he decided to represent him so it was politically correct no it was footik incorrect and it worked well what do you think of that there I think that amazing that job would I mean I don't see how it would be better to get a tinge of cold when you look at it you visit does it bring back those kind of memories too it's perfect it's perfect chimera memories but you put some other interesting little details tick over here right up in this area you see a little Tom Hawk stuck in the tree yes okay Oh Jeff okay up in the air up in the tree up here can you make out hatchet get it in the tree yeah okay that's Romo clunks tomahawk John kids around with her oh and there are some stories about URLs some of his activities I guess he used to collect rings and things but so the so John honor him by putting an Indian tomahawk in the tree saying we know what you were doing over there you were just wandering around you know I'm looking for for Jarbidge you were doing other things so so they stuck that and he did other little touches I think John's name is in someone John and his wife's initials were in one of the trees to him I have just see this little tricky things like that just to personalize it let's just for it winters I think you need your favorite pen here assignments and yeah we'll have to get big signature Atmos that will make it official yeah I we have your pen here yeah I've told the Baba never practice having a hole present for you guys really like hang things on the wall and this these are also signed by some of the guys we didn't get some of the guys took off before we can get them but was any good night that is what your quick oh wow and it really is that it really is fantastic how about that quick

Channel: ValorArtStudios

Views: 764,310

Rating: 4.9523664 out of 5

Keywords: Dick Winters, Major Dick Winters, Richard D. Winters, Bastogne, Band of Brothers

Id: S4PSQ81pD18

Length: 11min 16sec (676 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 22 2011

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