Darrell Powers

Military Person

1923 – 2009

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Who was Darrell Powers?

Staff Sergeant Darrell C. "Shifty" Powers 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. 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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Born
Mar 13, 1923
Clinchco
Died
Jun 17, 2009
Dickenson County

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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