Talk:Ronald Speirs

message: Anyone have a source stating his death, or stating he is alive? There seems to be a disagreement here. Onthost 01:45, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dead or Alive 

message: I read in the article that Speirs died recently, but I can't find any source to verify this. Can someone provide any info?--Darz Mol 14:45, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: See this page. That's the only source I've been able to find. CillaИ X♦C [dic] 23:09, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm starting to wonder a little bit about this given zero verification and that the post reporting the death was originally from an anonymous IP address.  I've spent some time searching both Easy Company boards like wildbillguarnere.com and found no comment on this whatsoever, and in fact the only references I've found were that original link - and a whole ton of pages that link back to Wikipedia.  I'll dig a bit further and any more confirmation would be welcome.
Edit: Found it in the Social Security death database via the Helena Independent Reporter (check under Spears, R if you'd like to verify).  It is very strange that he didn't have an obit, but may he rest well.Old64mb 09:39, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  About his death 

message: Other work	Governor of Spandau Prison
Red Army Liaison Officer
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the article does mention but does not go into the details of the roles he served after WWII,which are of some importance,especially the governour of spandau prison,maybe we can find some references in the book that details his roles as the governour of the infamous spandau prison and as the red army liaison officer,  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.117.48.141 (talk) 15:05, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ronald Speirs  Other work section	 

message: The article states he "single-handedly" captured the last howitzer at Brecourt; however the Brecourt Manor article insists he was accompanied by four of his men from D-company, which is it? Anthiety (talk) 23:42, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: As I understand the encounter - he overran the last howitzer with the other men following him in, I do not believe "single-handedly" is perhaps the best term, but it would depend on what the actual battle accounts would have stated.  In the Band of Brothers movie, his heroism is portrayed as near wreckless behavior, further showing the fine line between 'heroism' and 'insanity'.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.79.14.17 (talk) 18:49, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brecourt Manor 

message: I think I may have some information on Speirs, though I hasten to add them. Since he was a Paratrooper, he would probably have been assigned to the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team, since it is the only Paratrooper unit I know of that fought in Korea. I won't add it, unless someone confirms it was the only Airborne unit in Korea. --AnyGuy (talk) 04:33, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  On his Korean War involvement 

message: The article ends by stating that Speirs was survived by "3 grandchildren. 2 stepsons, 1 stepdaughter, 6 grandchildren, and 10 great grandchildren". (i) How many grandchildren did he have? Three, or nine? Or some other figure? (ii) The source provided is an archive of a forum, the last messages of which date from 2004, three years before he died. How could the people of 2004 know that he would be survived by the aforementioned? -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 18:10, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Descendents 

message: I removed false information about Speirs' first marriage to an English women. Stephen Ambrose had claimed in the book 'Band of Brothers' his wife left him for her first husband, whom she thought had died during the war. Speirs personally denounced this claim in a letter to Richard Winters. I also removed the disparaging part about his wife keeping all the war loot he had sent to her after the divorce. Gugvista (talk) 15:51, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed false information about his first marriage

message: I have deleted the paragraph about the incidents in which Speirs killed a sergeant. The source cited a personal web fan self-published page which, in turn, cited youtube, which is on the non-RS list.--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk  20:12, 16 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unreliable source 

message: This article lacks information about Speirs in The Netherlands. This page contains a medical report that matches Speirs' service number that he was wounded in the buttocks and hip by machine gun fire in October 1944; the morning report dated 18 October 1944 shows his status change from duty to hospital after being seriously wounded in action.--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk  00:36, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  MARKET-GARDEN 

message: I find the way the passage about Speirs killing a sergeant odd. We have the name of a private who witnessed it but not the actual sergeant in question? Can anyone provide a reliable source for that incident? 59.124.5.22 (talk) 09:20, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Because the sergeant was a replacement, there's a good chance no one ever really "met" him. There is probably a morning report page buried in the archives that reads something like "Sergt John Doe, KIA rifle fire 7 Jun 44, 0145 hrs." Sources are thin on the ground accounts both differ and blend because the story was told by the men to each other over years and conflated to include the German POWs allegedly shot. The TV series did not help with this "history lesson."--Georgia Army Vet Contribs Talk  15:57, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sergeant incident 

message: I know that most people he killed were Germans or cowardly Americans, but does anyone know or at least an estimate of how many people he killed. I know it's a weird thing to wounder but just curious. 2601:482:0:2D50:F43F:436D:104D:D0B3 (talk) 00:34, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  How many people he killed 

message: DNA has proven he fathered a daughter Edwina Rutherford (Married name) she has met the extended family and they have accepted the DNA evidence to be true. She lives in Manly Australia. Needs documentation but it is available.Instagram name EddieChanel Tanzi Bee (talk) 03:18, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: @Tanzi Bee Without reliable sources, this may not go in the article. —C.Fred (talk) 03:19, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ronald Speirs Australian Daughter