Darrell Cecil "Shifty" Powers (13 March 1923 – 17 June 2009)[1] was a non-commissioned officer with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division during World War II.

On 29 December 1944, when Easy Company was staying in the woods, Powers noticed a tree that was not there just the day before and reported it to First Sergeant Carwood Lipton.

It was one of Powers' most remarkable achievements and a testament to the extraordinary gifts his backwoods upbringing brought to Easy Company.

[8] On 13 January 1945, when Easy Company was attacking Foy, several of the men were pinned down by a sniper that nobody could locate.

Later, when Carwood Lipton and Wynn found the sniper's corpse, they were shocked to see the bullet hole centered in the middle of his forehead.

[11] Powers joined and won the lottery that was organized to allow one man from each company to return home early on a furlough.

[12] He spent many months recuperating in hospitals overseas while his comrades in arms arrived home long before he did.

[13] Powers is listed as one of 20 men from Easy Company who contributed to the 2009 book We Who Are Alive and Remain: Untold Stories from the Band of Brothers, published by Penguin/Berkley-Caliber.

In the first edition of the book Band of Brothers, author Ambrose wrote that on 23 December 1944, Powers disobeyed a direct order from Lieutenant Edward Shames to go out on patrol because he was discouraged.

[14] Powers was a character, played by Peter Youngblood Hills, in the HBO Band of Brothers TV miniseries.