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Ronald Speirs
Born on April 20, 1920 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Later he would travel to Portland where he would spend his childhood there. At the beginning of his military training, he was assigned to an infantry unit, but volunteered for paratroopers. He served as a platoon leader in the Dog Company at Camp Toccoa (Toccoa, State of Georgia).
Ronald was on the Normandy Landing on June 6, 1944 and quickly organized himself with a few men to create a command post on an unoccupied farm. He with a few soldiers helped the assault on Brécourt Manor that made the Easy company to take a 105 mm guns. Later rumors began to circulate among the soldiers, according to whom, Speirs had murdered 20 captured German prisoners on D-Day after having offered them cigarettes and lighted them. However, Speirs has never confirmed or denied those rumors.
Distinction of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the USA.
Although he participated with the Easy in the D-Day assault, the Dog Company did not see much action as the Easy did, but they still participated in a significant number of clashes during the war. Speirs and Company D were in Bastogne and also with Easy in the initial assault on the town of Foy.
During the course of that combat, Speirs was ordered to relieve Lieutenant Norman Dike from Major Richard Winters. Thus in command of the Easy achieved a resounding victory over the Germans in that action in Belgium.
Speirs was reassigned as commander of the Easy Company and remained throughout the rest of the war to capture positions and monuments such as Kehlsteinhaus (or the Eagle's Nest) near Berchtesgaden, the Adolf Hitler Alps retirement place.
Of all those who commanded the Easy during the war, Speirs was the one that lasted the longest.
Kehlsteinhaus
After the war, Speirs returned to his home in England and upon meeting his wife (an old widow of a British soldier reported dead, but had actually been made a prisoner of war), he found the surprise that she had returned with her ex-husband It is said that she kept all the silverware and the things that Speirs had collected while in Europe. So Speirs decides to stay in the Army, later serving in the Korean War, where he made a leap of combat in that country and led a company of riflemen.
Speirs took a course to learn the Russian language in 1956, being assigned as liaison officer with the Red Army in Potsdam, East Germany.
In 1958 he became Governor of the Spandau Prison in Berlin, where some prominent NS famous characters such as Rudolf Hess and Albert Speer were imprisoned.
In Albert Speer's book, Spandau: The Secret Diaries, he mentions a tough and irritating American commander, but does not provide his name. This commander has been identified from the beginning as Ronald Speirs.
Spandau Prison
Although Speirs did not regularly participate in the annual Easy Company meetings, he did meet with many former Easy members from time to time. However, he decided to participate in some meetings a few years ago.
On April 11, 2007 he died at the age of 86, his rumors about the 20 German soldiers killed under the Lieutenant Colonel's own orders remain a mystery that can not be resolved.
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Matias Dominguez
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