![]() ![]() Powers followed Easy Company to station in Aldbourne, England. Powers' nickname "Shifty" originated from his basketball days and his ability to be 'shifty' on his feet. Powers enlisted on 14 August 1942, at Richmond, Virginia. When they found out that they were about to be frozen to the jobs, they went to sign up for the Army. There he befriended Robert 'Popeye' Wynn, and the two went to work in the shipyards in Portsmouth, Virginia after finishing the course. Powers graduated from high school and took a machinist course in a vocational school in Norfolk. ![]() Many of the skills he obtained helped him as a soldier. He got to the point where he could throw a coin in the air and hit it with a rifle. Shifty spent a great deal of time in the outdoors, hunting game. His father was an excellent rifle and pistol shot, and taught him how to shoot when he was young. Powers was one of the twenty contributors to the 2009 book We Who Are Alive and Remain: Untold Stories from the Band of Brothers. ![]() The 2011 book Shifty's War by journalist Marcus Brotherton, published by Penguin/ Berkley-Caliber, captures Sgt. Powers was portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers by Peter Youngblood Hills. Staff Sergeant Darrell Cecil "Shifty" Powers (13 March 1923 – 17 June 2009) was a non-commissioned officer with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division during World War II. ![]()
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