Memorial at the real location for the Crossroads episode of the Band of Brothers TV mini-series in Heteren, Netherlands.
This image is looking approx west from the main dyke. The German machine gun position featured in the episode would have been about 20m behind this view on a higher part of the dyke (but importantly NOT looking out over this view). Winters and his men hid in a ditch visible about 300m away in the distance (it is a thin line underneath the main line of trees to the extreme top left of the image) During the assault they ran through the second field from left to right (it is the field directly behind the top of the star) to a lower dyke out of frame to the right. 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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