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,…
What Happened to Buck Compton? Paratrooper, Then Prosecutor
The verified true story of Buck Compton: Jackie Robinson's UCLA teammate, D-Day Silver Star, and the prosecutor who…
Joe Toye: The True Story of Easy Company’s Toughest Sergeant
How did Joe Toye lose his leg, and why did he have four Purple Hearts? The true story…
Earl “One Lung” McClung: the Band of Brothers soldier Shifty Powers called the best shot in Easy Company
Earl “One Lung” McClung was a scout and sergeant in Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment,…
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,…