Band of Brothers™ · The 25th Anniversary

A Screaming Eagle

His Drawings, His Words

The wartime drawings and memoir of T/Sgt. Burton “Pat” Christenson, Easy Company’s only combat artist, and the second man out the door behind Dick Winters on the Normandy jump.

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A Screaming Eagle front cover: T/Sgt. Pat Christenson at right, with a fellow paratrooper beside a C-47. His Drawings, His Words

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I wanted my best, most dependable man right behind me, the number two man, and that was Pat again.

Major Dick Winters · Commander, Easy Company, 506th P.I.R.

The letter Winters wrote the Christenson family, the day after Pat died in 1999, is the first thing you read when you open the book.

Who he was

The only man in Easy Company who could draw it.

Burton “Pat” Christenson jumped into Normandy on the night of June 5, 1944, second out the door behind Lieutenant Dick Winters.

“Some things you don’t need to talk about.”
Pat, when his son asked why he never drew the camp at Kaufering.

He fought across Normandy, Holland, Bastogne, and into Germany with Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne. He was also the only combat artist in the company.

In the years after the war, working from memory, he finished 46 drawings of what he had seen, and left a seven-volume typed memoir in his own hand. Stephen Ambrose drew on Pat’s account when he wrote Band of Brothers, and called the drawings “almost priceless.”

Some of what Pat carried, he never drew. The chapter on the concentration camp at Kaufering is the heart of the book, and it is told in the words he did leave behind. This edition brings his drawings and his memoir together for the first time, edited by his son.

The Gallery

Forty-six drawings, finished from memory.

Plate 01 · Hand drawn by Pat

The Screaming Eagle, in his own hand.

Pat drew the emblem itself. Every one of the forty-six plates in the book is his, drawn from memory, in his own hand.

B. P. Christenson

The 101st Airborne Screaming Eagle insignia, hand drawn by Pat Christenson

The Screaming EagleHand drawn by Pat

Pat Christenson's D-Day drawing: C-47 transports over Normandy, his own plane number 526, paratroopers descending, June 6, 1944

D-Day, June 6, 1944Plate 02

Seen by millions

The drawing that ran in Band of Brothers.

Pat drew his own plane, number 526, over the Normandy fields on the morning of June 6, 1944. This is one of the drawings that appeared in Stephen Ambrose’s Band of Brothers, seen by millions of readers. It is in the book.

B. P. Christenson

The Island

Seventy-two days in Holland.

After Normandy came Holland, and the long stand on the Island. Pat drew this the way he drew all of it, from memory and years later, down to the dikes and the far treeline.

B. P. Christenson

Pat Christenson's drawing of the fighting in Holland

HollandPlate 03

Three of the forty-six. Forty-five were exhibited at the Band of Brothers premiere in 2001, and all forty-six are collected in the book.

His father’s final mission, kept

Eight months. Seven days a week.

Pat left seven volumes of memoir and forty-six drawings, and a son who promised to finish what his father started. Timothy Christenson spent eight months, seven days a week, editing his father’s words and bringing the drawings together, building this book plate by plate so Pat’s war would be told the way Pat told it. An Army veteran himself, Tim made the book his father never got to publish.

Timothy Christenson

Son of T/Sgt. Burton “Pat” Christenson

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Pat Christenson's D-Day drawing, plane 526 over Normandy

D-Day, June 6, 1944Signed & numbered 16 x 20

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“Guard those paintings. Their true value will be realized by collectors of war memorabilia all over the world.” Major Dick Winters

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Certifies the print as an authentic limited edition of an original combat drawing by T/Sgt. Burton “Pat” Christenson, Easy Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne
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From the back cover

Tech Sergeant Pat Christenson jumped into Normandy as the number two man behind Dick Winters, fought through Holland, Bastogne, and into the heart of Germany, then spent the rest of his life doing what no one else in Easy Company could. He drew it. A Screaming Eagle is his war, in his own words and forty-six original combat drawings, finished at last by the son who promised to complete his father’s final mission.

On the drawings

“Guard those paintings. Their true value will be realized by collectors of war memorabilia all over the world.”

Major Dick Winters

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“Almost priceless.”

Stephen Ambrose, author of Band of Brothers

Exhibited in 2001

45 drawings shown at the Band of Brothers premiere

Winters’ own words

His 1999 letter opens the book