Richard Winters

Richard Winters is the main protagonist in the 2001 HBO miniseries Band Of Brothers. He is based on the real life historical figure of the same name. He is played by Damian Lewis. 
In Episode 1 of Band Of Brothers, Richard Winters is a Lieutenant in the US 101st Airborne Division. He and his platoon of new recruits are under the command of Lieutenant Herbert Sobel. Sobel proves to be a rough and tough trainer as he views the men as incompetent machines rather than people. Later in the episode, the platoon is undergoing combat training and Sobel is proving to be incompetent and nervous when it comes to combat. Winters however is a great combat leader and improvises a strategy in training when Sobel is late. Sobel is outraged and attempts to court-martial Winters and then many of the men in easy company refuse to serve under Sobel's command. Colonel Robert Sink is outraged and holds Sobel accountable and then Sobel loses command of Easy Company. Lieutenant Meehan then replaces Sobel and Winters is called back to action. Episode 1 ends with the men of Easy Company loading onto their transport planes for the invasion of Normandy. 
In Episode 2, the men of Easy Company are in their transport planes and they come under Flak fire from the Wehrmacht Flak Crews. Lieutenant Meehan's plane catches fire and explodes. Winters and his men then jump out of their plane and land on the ground while parachuting. Then, Lieutenant Winters finds a paratrooper who was from a completely different company. Winters and the other paratrooper then link up with Bill Guarnre and Buck Compton and Donald Malarkey and Carwood Lipton. By sunrise because Lieutenant Meehan can't be found, Winters becomes the new commander of Easy Company. Then, Winters and his men are in a huge battle against Wehrmacht Soldiers in order to take out German Artillery Guns that are firing at the Infantry on Utah Beach. When Winters realizes theres no way to set off the guns with TNT, he uses his skills as an improviser and puts German stick grenades in the gun barrel which disables the gun's cannon. After the battle is over, Winters settles in for the night and realizes he and his men are finally in the war.
Throughout Episode 3 and through the other 6 episodes in the series, other characters are being concentrated on because in Episode 2, Winters had been established as the focal point of the series. In Episode 3, Winters comforts a shell shocked paratrooper named Blithe by saying he is doing his best. In Episode 4 Winters leads the platoon after being promoted to a captain in the ill-fated Operation Market Garden. Episode 5 focuses on Winters' mental stability as he is having flashbacks of Operation Pheasant in 1944. Then in Episodes 6 and 7, he leads his men through the Battle of the Bulge by helping them win the Battles of Bastogne, Foy, and Noville. Then in Episodes 8 and 9, Winters and his men arrive in Germany and discover an abandoned Nazi Concentration Camp filled with incarcarated prisoners. They are clueless as to what camp it was when they ask a camp inmate what has been going on, he tells thim it's a labor camp for people that were considered enemies of the Nazis. Then Episode 10 is the final episode of the series and ends with Winters and his men playing baseball.
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Category:Protectors
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