Band of Brothers Nurse Augusta Chiwy - Someone You Should Know
“A black face in all that white snow was a pretty easy target. Those Germans must be terrible marksmen.” - Augusta Chiwy on her surviving German shells and bullets while rescuing wounded Americans during the Battle of the Bulge
You probably don’t know Augusta Chiwy. She just didn’t patch up paratroopers…she went out to the battlefield and got shot at picking up wounded troops on litters and shelled and bombed in her own hospital…but you may remember this image from the Band of Brothers series (episode 6)…