View along the dyke of the real location for the Crossroads episode of the Band of Brothers TV show, Heteren, Netherlands.
This image is looking approx east along the dyke. Winters and his men hid in a ditch perpendicular to this dyke out of frame to the left. During the assault they ran through the second field to the left (the last dark green field) away from the camera towards a lower dyke located along the line of trees in the distance. The machine gun featured in the episode was located approx to the right of the white sign visible by following the tarmac road into the distance. Located on The Island, Holland, "The Crossroads" lies between Heteren and Randwijk. This incident has been depicted in the book and television mini-series, Band of Brothers (by Stephen Ambrose) Known as the Crossroads, this is where the men of Easy Company led by Richard Winters of the 506th Regiment, American 101st Airborne, successfully assaulted a German force (actually part of the 363rd Volksgrenadiers) many times their size. In the episode, Winters lead his men over the dyke at this point and down into a ditch at the bottom, (where the first deeper grass is visible). Winters latter led a successful advance across the second field across towards a road 200m away. The action, deemed by Winters the pinnacle of the action's carried out by Easy Company during World War Two, took place early on the 5th October 1944.
Size: 5184px × 3456px
Location: Heteren and Randwijk, Gelderland, Netherlands
Photo credit: © Maurice Savage / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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