George Luz was one of the N.C.O.'s who started as privates in Toccoa. The others were Lipton, Talbert, Martin, Perconte, Muck, Christenson, Randleman, Rader, Gordon, Toye, Guarnere, Carson, Boyle, Guth, Taylor, Malarkey and others.

In the tv-series you can see George Luz imitating voices. The first scene is about playing tricks on Captain Sobel. On a cross-country march during the night Easy company was hold up by a barbed-wire fence and Captain Sobel was ordered to cut them by, as he thought, Major Horton. But is was the voice of George Luz. The other day the Wiltshire farmers confronted Col. Strayer, complaining about their wandering cows all over the landscape. Sobel never knew who fooled him.

In the night of D-day Lutz was in the plane from Welsh. Because of his heavy equipment, -in addition to all his regular gear he was carrying a radio and batteries- he had to be pushed in the plane by other men. Because he thought he would never manage to get out of the plane (he was 5th in the stick) he changed position with Roy Cobb. There was heavy flak and Cobb was hit. He couldn't jump. Luz did after he had kicked out his leg bag containing the radio and other equipment. He leaped into the night together with 13.400 other American young boys.

George was also in Herman Goering's wine cellar in Berchtesgaden, together with David Kenyon Webster and Patrick O.Keefe. But they were too late to get the best. Other Easy members, including Nixon, had been there first and had taken away all the 'good stuff'.

text from the book Band of Brothers©with kind permission from the writer

George died because of an industrial accident. Like his Son in Law Arthur Miller (husband of Lana) he worked in the prison system. Arthur was informed immediately and was told that George died instantly. He took Lane to the hospital but did not tell her yet that her father passed away. In hospital she found out. (aboven right: George with his wife Delvina.

In June 2012, together with her husband ans Son CJ, she visited Europe to attend the unveilling of the statue Leadership (Dick Winters) in Normandy. She also visited Holland ( Eindhoven) to follow the foothsteps of her father.

Above left: This photo was made during the Liberation of Eindhoven. George walking in front with a tripod from a machinegun. Behind him Babe Heffron. The photo is from a book about the history of an Eindhoven hospital and probably made in the neighborhood of it.

Above fltr: Silvia Staal - Arthur Miller - CJ Miller - Lana Luz-Mille - Peter van de Wal. Photo made at Stratumseind Eindhoven were the troops passed on their way to Arnhem in 1944. (photo courtesy Steph Leenhouwers)