"Silencing the Guns"
1000 Veterans Edition #993 0f 1000

Image Size is 25.5" x 15"
Overall Size is 32" x 22.5" not counting framing

Piece which is personally signed by four veterans of Easy Company, including their legendary leader Dick Winters - a rare original autograph:

Staff Sergeant BILL GUARNERE
Sergeant DON MALARKEY
1st Lieutenant "BUCK" COMPTON
Major RICHARD "DICK" WINTERS

The print is framed to include museum quality reproduction jump wings, screaming eagle pin badge and the original autographs of eight more Easy Company veterans:

Sergeant PAUL ROGERS
Colonel ED SHAMES
Corporal HERB SUERTH
Sergeant "BUCK" TAYLOR
Private 1st Class BILL WINGETT
First Sergeant FRANK SOBOLESKI
Private 1st Class BILL MAYNARD
Sergeant EDWARD TIPPER

Description:

6 June, 1944, Normandy, France. Amidst the roar of D-Day, the paratroopers of Easy Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division, capture the first of four German cannons at Brécourt Manor. Led by Lt. Dick Winters, the 12 men of Easy Company, with a handful of reinforcements, would rout the German gun crews and 50 enemy paratroopers.

For his actions, Lt. Winters was recommended for the Congressional Medal of Honor
Detailed Description:
The 506th P.I.R.,101st Airborne at Brecourt Manor

In the mid-morning hours of D-Day, June 6, 1944, the deafening sounds of gunfire resounded across the French hills, along the Channel coast and against low-hanging clouds. Amidst the fields of the French farm, Brécourt Manor, a particular cacophony erupted as a German battery of four 105mm cannons shook the soil. Five miles distant, on Utah Beach, the Brécourt battery's steel rained upon American soldiers of the 4th Infantry Division as they disembarked from their landing craft. Within minutes of that first salvo, an ad hoc squad of paratroopers from Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th P.I.R., 101st Airborne, departed the French village of Le Grand-Chemin with a mission to silence those guns...

Having sacked the first cannon, Winters "reorganized the team." James Dietz's painting Silencing the Guns signifies this moment. While Winters confers with Guarnere, troopers Malarkey, Compton, Wynn, and Toye deploy to deliver suppressing fire to keep the Germans on their heels. Figures representing Lipton and Ranney emerge from a background hedgerow to rejoin their comrades. Soon, Guarnere will lead a charge to capture the second gun.

During the days following the D-Day invasion, in a grassy field in Normandy, General Omar Bradley personally awarded Winters the Distinguished Service Cross, the military's 2nd highest award, in recognition of Winters' actions and leadership in the silencing of the guns at Brécourt Manor.

Value: $Priceless