Major Dick Winters on How Cold it was at Bastogne | Band of Brothers
How cold was Bastogne? In this video,
Major Dick Winters, who is portrayed by
Damian Lewis in
Band of Brothers,
describes the deadly cold that gripped the
men of Easy Company and the 101st Airborne
in the woods around Bastogne during the
Battle of the Bulge in WWII. We reveal the
exact temperatures at Bastogne during the
battle, which led to conditions like
trench foot, frost bite, hypothermia and
pneumonia. Trench foot was the most
common, as soldiers sat huddled and
freezing with wet feet in muddy foxholes.
Hear how men like Bill Guarnere and Don
Malarkey described the brutal cold of
Bastogne and the effects it had on them in
the form of PTSD long after WWII was over.
Dick Winters also reveals whether
Band
of Brothers' depiction of the cold at
Bastogne is accurate.
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