Ret. Col. Edward Shames, 99, the “last surviving officer” of D-Day’s fabled “Easy Company” of the 101st Airborne Division, died Friday, December 3, 2021 (story here).
Shames jumped into Normandy on D-Day, was the first 101st paratrooper to enter Dachau, and upon Germany’s surrender entered Hitler’s “Eagle’s Nest” from which he liberated several bottles of cognac labeled “for the Fuhrer’s use only” that he later used “to toast his oldest son’s Bar Mitzvah.”
The previous owner wasn’t on hand to object.