Episode 1: Currahee Recruit Training

This episode has no battle scenes, no blood, and not even a gunshot - but it is actually the most touching episode. It tells the story of how the group of E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, transformed from a group of ordinary civilians into a group and became brothers to each other. Although Sauber often behaved disgustingly, he was an indispensable and important figure in the growth of E Company. He taught E Company what discipline is and what trust is. It was precisely because of his foil that Winters' perfect personality was highlighted, making Winters the spiritual leader of E Company. There are three unforgettable scenes in this episode:

1. Why is only E Company running in the damn weather! "Three miles up the mountain, three miles down the mountain!" "Private First Class Randallman, you look very brave. There is an ambulance waiting for you at the bottom of the mountain!" "Private Gordon, why are you here? You want to be a paratrooper. ? Give you 15 minutes to run to the top of the mountain and then run back to me." When the heavily armed Gordon ran on the mountain road panting, several brothers came over from behind and accompanied him silently.

2. After waiting day after day, it was finally time to board the plane and land. Winters walked over from the rear hatch and reached out to pull up the brothers who were sitting on the ground resting one by one. The camera swept over the faces of these young people one by one. Everyone's expressions are moving.

"Attention, second row. I wish you good luck and God bless you. See you in the assembly area."

3. Under the afterglow of the setting sun, C47s appeared in a dense column. The columns took off, circled, formed, and flew to the other side of the strait under the watchful eyes of British anti-aircraft artillery. Each plane carried 10 paratroopers. These people came from the other side of the Atlantic. Maybe before this war, they had never left the town where they were born, and they had never touched a gun. But now they have to hand over their lives to this The thin metal tube waited in the dark for the green light to turn on, and then threw itself onto a land it had never seen before. Personally, this is the most beautiful scene in the entire series.

Episode 2, Day of Days

In the daytime of June 6, Winters took several brothers who had gathered after landing and headed to the back of Utah Beach to deal with a German artillery position. Capture a bunker - destroy the artillery - advance along the trench - capture the next bunker. Winters only shouted one sentence to the brothers:

"Follow me!"

Episode 3 Carentan Carrington

Soldier Bloy is Afraid of fighting. Maybe when he joined the army, he imagined that he could chew gum and kick the Germanic people's butts with his leather boots, but the reality was that he was a person who was frightened by the war. When he finally plucked up the courage to join the battle, picked his edelweiss from a German who was killed by himself, and carefully pinned it to his lapel, he became a real soldier. But later in the battle, he was injured and eventually died. Later, E Company withdrew to England to rest, and a soldier went to the laundry to pick up the clothes he had stored there. The boss's wife asked him, can you take all these clothes back, but they didn't come to get them.

The soldier stood silently at the door, looking at the cabinets. There are bags of clean clothes placed on the cabinet, with the names of the fallen comrades written on the labels.

Episode 4 Replacements Recruit Support

Operation "Market Garden" was a nightmare for the Allies. The Chinese people are very familiar with it because the leaders were very happy to make a decision and then let them go. The middle-class style of paying the bills at the grassroots level. When the soldiers entered the Netherlands, they were greeted by roaring waves. Then the crowd nearby grabbed a few women who were friendly with the Germans and shaved their heads. Later, the soldiers saw a woman with her hair cut off on the roadside, holding her child and looking at the advancing army. They silently handed her their military rations.

Episode 5 Crossroads

At the end of this episode, E is connected to the order to go to the Ardennes Forest and hold the position on a small protrusion. This battle later became known as the Battle of Bastogne, and the Germans called it the Battle of the Bulge. E Company moved to Bastogne without a breather from the previous battlefield. Among the vast crowd of retreating people with dull eyes, they were the only unit moving forward. Lack of ammunition and supplies, and no warm clothing, their mission is to defend Bastogne, a small nail. Everyone who retreated generously gave their ammunition to Company E. Perhaps in their eyes, there was no difference between Company E and going to die. A lieutenant said to Winters, if you act like this, you will be surrounded if you go. Winters looked at him and said:

"We are paratroopers, we are supposed to be surrounded (We are paratroopers, we are supposed to be surrounded)."

No. Six episodes of Bastogne

In fact, compared with the Eastern Front, which had been struggling in snow and mud, the Allied forces' days on the Western Front were like paradise most of the time, except for this incident Attack and defense at Bastogne.

The 28th Infantry Division was defeated by the German blitzkrieg, and the 101st Airborne Division rushed to the front line for reinforcements. After arriving in Bastogne on December 19, it was surrounded by the German army. In the ice and snow, it was difficult to dig a single soldier's pit deep enough to protect himself, let alone without warm clothes and sufficient ammunition supplies. E Company lost a lot of men at Bastogne, and the perspective of this episode is from the perspective of medic Eugene. He was always looking for necessities - morphine, plasma, plucking boots from corpses, even damn bandages by searching the corpses of Germans. He watched his brothers fall one by one, and finally his beloved nurse also died in the bombing, and the only thing he had on his body to commemorate her was a blue handkerchief.

Later his brother was injured, and he felt only this handkerchief all over his body. Eugene was stunned for a few seconds, then tore off the handkerchief and bandaged his brother's wound. Then the two people huddled in a shallow individual pit, leaning on each other and looking at the snow, forest and battle line.

Episode 7 The Breaking Point Breakout

E Company has become an ace unit with great achievements, so more people come to eat, drink and enjoy themselves. Winters had already been taken to the battalion headquarters ("Damn they took your troops away"), and a mediocre Lieutenant Dyke came to E Company. Their goal in this episode was simple: to capture the town called Fowey, but before they could prepare for battle, they suffered huge losses due to German shelling. The battle began. Winters' familiar "Follow me" was no longer heard in the ears of E Company. The incompetent company commander hid behind the straw stacks and shivered (Thanks to @白闵 for reminding that Deke was not punished for this in the original work. , and later got promoted). Spears, the legendary prisoner-of-war butcher of D Company, was ordered to rush forward and lead E Company to fight. Like a god of war, he led the troops to shred the German defense line. Another man rushed to the back of the town to join up with his brother troops and then appeared in front of the stunned Germans. He ran back unscathed... Lipton looked at Spears' figure with a smile on his lips - Company E finally had another reliable leader.

"By the way," Spears said, "Would you like a cigarette?"

Episode 8 The Last Patrol The Last Patrol

Winters: "You completed the mission last night so well that the division headquarters hopes that you will perform this mission again tonight."

Lipton: "Is there no change in our mission plan, sir?"

Winters: "No, the plan is the same. It's just that the mission time has been changed from 1 am to 2 am. Because I want you all to have a good sleep tonight - that is , you are to report to me tomorrow morning that you crossed the river and entered the enemy's position, but failed to capture any living prisoners... Do you understand? Very good, look good tomorrow."

Episode 9 Why We Fight Reason for Fighting

E Company invaded Germany. It seems that the German people are quite hospitable. No more damn ice or snow. No more digging hellish manholes. There are hot showers and bathtubs, but the guys on the Eastern Front who only shout "Ula!" are still stuck in one mud pit after another. Then several patrols of Company E discovered a shocking secret: there was a concentration camp full of dying Jews in the forest next to the town, and the residents of the town didn't even know it existed.

The soldiers who came after hearing the news were stunned by all this. Those pale or withered bodies staggered towards them, kissed them, hugged them, and cried but could not shed tears. A shabby Jew raised his hands tremblingly and saluted the soldiers. When Captain Nickerson was addicted to alcohol, he once broke into a German officer's home. He was discovered by the hostess and left in embarrassment. The hostess had arrogance and contempt in her eyes at that time. Then she and other residents of the town were drafted to the concentration camp to bury the bodies. When she saw Nickerson again, she could only lower her head in shame. Beside her, a group of Germans in expensive coats were busy waving shovels, and an old German man burst into tears at Nixon.

"Hitler committed suicide in Berlin and Germany surrendered."

Episode 10 Points score

85 points - if you want to retire, you must pass Participate in battles and build meritorious deeds to accumulate points for yourself. When you reach 85 points, you can leave this damn battlefield, retire, and return home. Everyone wants to accumulate 85 points as soon as possible, but few people are willing to be sent to the Pacific battlefield to fight with those squawking little monkeys after finishing the battle in Europe. E Company spent those difficult days in dazed waiting and small commotion, and then captured Hitler's Eagle's Nest before the French. Nixon smiled in front of a room full of drunkards, and then - they didn't need to go east anymore, the Japanese surrendered.

The war is over.

The most touching thing in the tenth episode is the words of the veterans at the end.

Winters: "One day my grandson is going to ask me, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in World War II?' and I say 'No, kid, I wasn't a hero. But I and heroes They fight side by side.

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