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| | Lt. Winters and Easy Company: Everything Right |
 | | Later, Winters realized that he and his men had been "very, very lucky." In an analysis, he said the main reason for success was the poor quality of German leadership. |
 | | Winters called this "the highlight of all E Company actions for the entire war, even better than D-Day, because it demonstrated Easy's overall superiority in every phase of infantry tactics: patrol, defense, attack under a base of fire, withdrawal, and, above all, superior marksmanship with rifles, machine gun, and mortar fire." |
 | | Winters, twenty-six and a half years old, a captain and company commander for only three months, gulped and replied, "Yes, sir. |
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