Staff Sergeant Powers passed away on Jat the age of 86. Darrell Shifty Powers was portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers by Peter Youngblood Hills. After a brief career as a machinist in California the Powers returned to Virginia where Shifty worked as a machinist with Clinchfield Coal Corporation for more than twenty years. After the war Shifty returned to Virginia and married Dorothy Lenore Stamper. Spending many months convalescing, he returned to the United States well after many of the men in his Company. On his way to the airport Staff Sergeant Powers was severely injured in an automobile accident. Consequently he was chosen via lottery to receive an early furlough. Even though he served his time he was never injured in action thus coming up short for the requirement. "Shifty " Powers noticing the tree and using his skills brought about the deployment of the German unit.Īt the closing of the ETO Shifty did not have enough points to return home. Lipton got permission to fire on the battery, despite low ammunitions. Band Of Brothers cast visit the spot where Shifty Powers took out the German sniper in Foy The Ross Owen Show 5.83K subscribers Subscribe 1.1M views 6 years ago Captain Dale Dye re-enacts easy. The "tree" was discovered to be a part of a camouflage the Germans put up for there anti-aircraft battery. At the Battle of the Bulge on December 29, 1944, when Easy company was staying the woods, Powers noticed a tree standing there that had not been there the day before and reported it to his First Sergeant Lipton. Always humble, Darrell made the near impossible shot with ease. On Januwhen Easy Company was under attack in the city of Foy Power's marksmanship and quick thinking saved many of his brothers when he eliminated an enemy sniper. During the Battle of the Bulge, Shifty's skill as an outdoorsman and marksman was remarkable. As a veteran of Operation Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge, Staff Sergeant Darrell Powers was one of the few men to remain uninjured during his service. Missing his drop zone on D-Day, Powers joined up with Easy Company in time for the Battle of Carentan. Shiftys War: The Authorized Biography of Sergeant Darrell Shifty Powers, the Legendary Sharpshooter from the Band of Brothers. Shifty was with Easy Company from start to finish He enlisted with his friend Robert "Popeye" Wynn and both men were assigned to Easy Company at Camp Toccoa and received training under Captain Herbert Sobel. Shifty's War is a tale of heroism and adventure, of a soldier's blood-filled days fighting his way from the shores of France to the heartland of Germany, and the epic story of how one man's skills as a sharpshooter propelled him to a life greater than he could have ever imagined.Staff Sergeant Darrell “Shifty” Powers, of Clinchco, Virginia, enlisted with the US Army on Augin Richmond Virginia. He parachuted into France on D-day and fought for a month in Normandy eighty days in Holland thirty-nine in the harshly cold winter of Bastogne and for nearly thirty more near Haguenau, France, and the Ruhr pocket in Germany. Little did Shifty know his finely-tuned skills would one day save his life-and the lives of his fellow paratroopers.Īs one of the original men who trained at Camp Toccoa, Georgia, Shifty was one out of only two soldiers in Easy Company to initially earn the coveted expert marksman designation. His father trained him to listen to the woods, to "see" without his eyes.
From D-Day to the Battle of the Bulge and more, here is the authorized biography of one of the most celebrated paratroopers of Easy Company, Sergeant Shifty Powers, the legendary sharpshooter from the Band of Brothers.Īs a boy, Darrell "Shifty" Powers's goal was to become the best rifle shot he could be.
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