After capturing Eagle's Nest, Hitler's mountaintop fortress, the men of Easy Company face deployment to the Pacific.

Band of Brothers

Points

Easy Company enters Germany and discovers an abandoned Nazi concentration camp occupied by emaciated prisoners, just as the local citizens learn that Hitler is dead.

Why We Fight

Lt. Jones leads a patrol across a river to take enemy prisoners, but the loss of a paratrooper leads Winters to refuse to send another patrol the next night.

The Last Patrol

After taking Bastogne, Belgium, the company moves on to the town of Foy, where many lives are lost as a result of Lt. Dike's incompetence.

The Breaking Point

Easy Company spends Christmas in the trenches while trying to hold the line in the forest outside Bastogne, Belgium.

Bastogne

Winters leads a dangerous mission on a Dutch dike; although ill-equipped, Easy Company races to help hold the Allied line in the Ardennes Forest.

Crossroads

A fresh group of paratroopers joins Easy Company shortly before it parachutes into German-occupied Holland; the company has to retreat when it meets a superior force.

Replacements

Easy Company sustains casualties while waging battle in Normandy; Pvt. Blithe has trouble adjusting to combat; the company returns to England.

Carentan

Thousands of paratroopers cross the English Channel to France on D-Day; Lt. Winters leads an attack on a fortified German artillery position.

Day of Days

A rivalry blazes between Lt. Sobel and a junior officer who has earned the respect of the men in Easy Company.

Currahee

The story of Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Army.

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