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Powers participated in the Allied military operation Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands. Missing his drop zone, he joined two others from the company and the three linked up with Easy Company several days later to fight in Carentan. He thought it would have been a massacre if the Germans had indeed invaded Aldbourne. He was shocked to see that the residents there were prepared to defend themselves against the Germans with only garden implements. Powers followed Easy Company to station in Aldbourne, England. Powers' nickname 'Shifty' originated from his basketball days and his ability to be 'shifty' on his feet. Powers enlisted on 14 August 1942, at Richmond, Virginia. When they found out that they were about to be frozen to the jobs, they went to sign up for the Army. There he befriended Robert 'Popeye' Wynn, and the two went to work in the shipyards in Portsmouth, Virginia after finishing the course. Powers graduated from high school and took a machinist course in a vocational school in Norfolk. Many of the skills he obtained helped him as a soldier. He got to the point where he could throw a coin in the air and hit it with a rifle. Shifty spent a great deal of time in the outdoors, hunting game.

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His father was an excellent rifle and pistol shot, and taught him how to shoot when he was young. Powers was one of the twenty contributors to the 2009 book We Who Are Alive and Remain: Untold Stories from the Band of Brothers. The 2011 book Shifty's War by journalist Marcus Brotherton, published by Penguin/ Berkley-Caliber, captures Sgt. Powers was portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers by Peter Youngblood Hills. Clifford Ishigaki.Staff Sergeant Darrell Cecil 'Shifty' Powers (13 March 1923 – 17 June 2009) was a non-commissioned officer with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division during World War II. ĭue to his role in 'Band of Brothers' his interests and personal life became focused on 'the recovery from war' which led to a 12-year mentorship with Vietnam Veteran, Sensei and Interfaith Rev. It focused on the conservation and preservation of Life. Leonardo DiCaprio asked him to do the stylized cinematography for his environmental documentary The 11th Hour.

Hills had a brief cameo in The Wolf of Wall Street.

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In 2006, he starred in the Foyle's War Series 4 episode titled 'Invasion'. In 2003, he starred as Steve Warson in Michel Vaillant. He also appeared in a 2002 film, AKA with his Band of Brothers co-star Matthew Leitch. His big break was when he appeared in Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg’s Band of Brothers. He has appeared in various films like The Beach and The Last of the Blonde Bombshells.

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He started off his career in acting with various music videos, TV commercials and theater before beginning a career in film.

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Peter Youngblood Hills has been a professional actor since 1996. He lived most of his early life between America and the United Kingdom and at age 13 attended Mill Hill School, a boarding school in Mill Hill, North London and completed his education to sixth form in 1996. He has three half siblings from his mothers previous marriage. His parents separated when he was a child and his father remarried his step mother a lifetime choir master and music teacher. Both Parents were trained as classical singers. He was born in Johannesburg, to an American mother (raised in North East Tennessee, USA) and English father (who was raised in Lusaka, Zambia). Darrell 'Shifty' Powers in HBO’s World War II mini-series, Band of Brothers. He is perhaps best known for his supporting role of Sgt. Peter Youngblood Hills (born 28 January 1978) is an Anglo-American actor.