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Staff Sergeant Darrell C. "Shifty" Powers (13 March 1923 – 17 June 2009)[1] was a non-commissioned officer with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division during World War II. Powers was portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers by Peter Youngblood Hills.
The 2011 book Shifty's War by journalist Marcus Brotherton, published by Penguin/Berkley-Caliber, captures Sgt. Powers' full life story.[2] Powers was one of the twenty contributors to the 2009 book We Who Are Alive and Remain: Untold Stories from the Band of Brothers.
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March 13, 1923
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Clinchco, Dickenson County, Virginia, United States
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1949
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June 17, 2009
Age 86
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Clinchco, Dickenson County, Virginia, United States
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Castlewood, Russell County, Virginia, United States
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