Author notes

page 8 Europe 1960

bravo1102

on June 1, 2011

Shift in time and space. The comic will shift between the two eras until the story lines converge.
With women in combat and negro battalions still around this is not our world's 1960.
To differentiate them from the 1945 scenes, the 1960 sequences are in full color.

The radio man's mohawk is a tradition in some units of the 101 Airborne Divison "Screaming Eagles"
The radio operator is trying to raise another station to check reception. "Negative contact" means he couldn't establish contact.

Some of the casting here is a tribute to the portrayal of the 101 Airborne in TV and movies. Major Winters is a figure of the actor who played Winters in Band of Brothers. Colonel Morrison is figure of the actor who played a 101ABN colonel in The Longest Day. Since this is alternative history they may actually be those people in different roles than how we know them. ;)