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BAND OF BROTHERS AT
TANK MUSEUM
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Release issued: 17th September 2004 |
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Two real-life characters
from the book Band of Brothers visited the Tank Museum
today to get their first close look at the Nazi Tanks
that nearly killed them both sixty years ago.
Forrest “Goody” Guth and Amos
“Butch” Taylor served in Easy Company,
516th regiment of the 101st Airborne Division in
World War Two, a unit made legendary by Stephen Ambrose
in his book and later TV miniseries Band of Brothers.
Forrest Guth, who has written his own book about his
wartime experiences said; “We have been looking
closely at the Tiger and King Tiger as well as the Panzer
IV – we all saw plenty of those from Normandy
onwards.
“Being Airborne, all we had to take them with
was bazookas, and you had to get pretty close with those
to make sure you’d hit them – way too close.”
Easy Company saw some of the major actions of the war
- parachuting into Normandy on D-Day, Operation Market
Garden, The Battle for Bastogne in the freezing
winter of 1944-5, finishing the war at The Eagles Nest
– Hitler’s Austrian mountain retreat.
Amos Taylor said; “I can’t say I’ve
seen so many Tanks since the war – just being
here has really brought back some memories. Just
the sound of these things still makes me uneasy!”
Standing near the Museums feared German Tiger I Tank,
he added; “Its quite overwhelming to see these
monsters again. In all this time I have never been
as close to a Tiger as I am know – I guess that’s
why I’m still here today!
“We have both really enjoyed our visit here. It
really is an incredible museum – I’ve
never seen anything like this before.”
The pair are currently taking part in a Battlefield
Expeditions tour of Europe, stopping briefly in the
UK to visit the Tank Museum before moving on to Normandy,
Holland and Belgium.
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