Aldbourne in Wiltshire is just a short drive from where I live.
One of it's claims to fame is it was home to some US Paras in WW2 for awhile.
You might have heard of them.
Pity they didn't use the real Aldbourne in Band Of Brothers, it's a very pretty village is. The one in the mini-series was a stand in.
Anyway have any members been to the Currahee Museum and seen the stables?
Just wondered how it was doing.
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A featured exhibit is a horse stable the was home to some the 506th's Company Able and Company Easy, Easy Company now known as the Band of Brothers. On display are personal letters and documentation of the last David Kenyon Webster who describes the stable's solitude that the men were able to enjoy while stationed in England. The stable, originally located on a farm west of England, in the small village of Aldbourne, was disassembled by Keith Sowerby and a team of workers, palletized by the RAF and transported to Dobbins Air Base in Marietta Georgia, on a C-17 Globemaster III by the Mississippi Air National Guard, 172nd Airlift Wing at Allen C. Thompson Field, Mississippi. The stable was then transported to Toccoa, where it was reassembled at its location, a new Museum site in downtown Toccoa in October in 2005
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Aldbourne Stables at Currahee Museum.
