Major Richard "Dick" Winters of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne, is one of the most studied small-unit commanders in modern American military history. As a lieutenant commanding Easy Company on the morning of D-Day, he led the assault on a German artillery battery at Brécourt Manor — four 105mm howitzers firing on Utah Beach — with thirteen men against an entrenched defending force several times that size. The action remains a textbook case in how to take a fortified position with limited resources, and is still taught at West Point. Winters earned the Distinguished Service Cross for it. He went on to command Easy Company through Carentan and Operation Market Garden, was promoted to battalion executive officer and then 2nd Battalion commander, and ended the war as a major. Stephen Ambrose's Band of Brothers and the HBO miniseries that followed put him at the center of one of the best-known unit narratives of WWII, but Winters himself remained famously modest about his role — gave credit to his men, declined many of the honors offered to him, and went home to a quiet life in Pennsylvania.

This figure shows Winters as Captain of Easy Company — the rank he held through the autumn of 1944, when most of the company's defining actions took place. He's in the standing-officer pose: helmet carried at his side rather than worn, web gear over the M1942 jump uniform, M1911 pistol on his belt, equipment musette under his arm. It's the figure of an officer in the moment of assessing or briefing rather than fighting. He pairs with Lt. Ronald Speirs running with Thompson — also from Easy Company — and SSG Darrell "Shifty" Powers for a Band of Brothers display, with Winters as the natural command piece.

1/30 scale (60mm), matte-painted, single figure boxed. Catalog number 25314. As with the rest of the W. Britain modern range, the painting is photographic-quality detail intended to read well in dioramas and display cases.