Major Richard "Dick" Winters was a United States Army officer and decorated war veteran. He commanded Company "E", Battalion, Parachute Infantry Regiment, Airborne Division, during World War II.
Two Airedale Terriers. one wearing a special gas mask and the other carrying rations to a wounded soldier in World War II ~ Fox Photos/ Hulton Archive/ Getty Images
Soldiers of the Royal Irish Rifles waiting to join the offensive on the Somme on 1 July, There were British casualties that day - almost died. The battle continued until mid-November, but no other day produced such appalling losses.