Band of Brothers: Legacy and the Men It Remembers
Trailer: Band of Brothers: Legacy (HBO Max), via YouTube. Twenty-five years after it first aired, one of television’s…
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Shifty Powers: The Sharpshooter Who Almost Died Going Home
He survived Normandy without a scratch. He walked out of Bastogne with all ten fingers and both boots.…
Band of Brothers Cast: Every Actor and the Real Soldier They Played
Most people can name the actors. Damian Lewis. Tom Hardy before anyone knew him. The man from Friends,…
Bill Guarnere: The True Story of Easy Company’s “Wild Bill”
Bill Guarnere lost his right leg running toward the shelling, not away from it. On January 3, 1945,…
Bill Kiehn: How the Band of Brothers Potatoes Soldier Really Died
He is on screen for about thirteen seconds. A grinning paratrooper holds up a sack of potatoes he…
Lewis Nixon: The Real Story of Easy Company’s Whiskey-Loving Officer
A German MG 42 round pierced the front of his helmet near Koevering in September 1944. The bullet…
Dick Winters: The Complete Biography of Easy Company’s Real Leader
Dick Winters jumped into Normandy at one in the morning on June 6, 1944, with a broken wristwatch,…
D-Day Paratroopers: Why the T-5 Jump Was a Nightmare
Before their boots touched French soil, something violent happened to every single man in the sky. They did…
What Happened to Captain Sobel: The 1970 Shot That Blinded Him
A man who trained 140 soldiers so well that they survive Normandy, Bastogne, and the deadliest war in…
“Now I Know Why I Am Here”: The Kaufering Camp True Story
Easy Company didn't discover the concentration camp first. The 12th Armored Division did. But what Winters saw at…