There are 10 episodes of Band of Brothers I***.
1, recruit training: 1942 in the U.S. state of Georgia, a group of young men from all over the world, south, voluntarily trained to become the U.S. Army's newest branch of the military - airborne troops, the formation of the 101st Airborne Division, 506th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion, Company E, in the company commander, Lt. Sobel, under the harsh and demanding training, they Under the harsh and demanding training of their company commander, Lt. Sobel, they grew from inexperienced civilians into the U.S. Army's most elite airborne soldiers.
2. Normandy Landing Day: On June 6, 1944, the first day of the Allied attack on France, thousands of airborne troops crossed the English Channel to France. Under intense artillery fire, they parachuted into France, and all the soldiers failed to land at the intended location, so Lt. Winters rallied the fallen soldiers and set out to find the rest of the men of E Company.
3. Carentan: Two days after the official Allied attack, E Company was ordered to take a small town called Carentan. The battle was quite successful, but several brothers were lost and soldiers such as Bliss developed a maladjustment to war. They spent 36 days on the Normandy Peninsula and returned to England after several fierce battles.
4. Recruit Support: Due to the heavy number of dead and wounded, a group of freshly trained parachute recruits joined E Company just in time for Operation Market Garden, where a large number of soldiers parachuted into Holland, which was then occupied by the Germans, and they didn't run into much resistance in the area of Eindhoven, but a top German unit from a neighboring town sent E Company retreating along with a group of British tank units. that suffered heavy casualties.
5. Crossroads: Lt. Winters leads his men on a perilous mission on a Dutch embankment that results in an unprecedented victory and his promotion to executive officer of the infantry battalion. Despite his promotion, most of Winters' work is administrative, leaving him dissatisfied and worried about who will lead the three companies he commands.
6. Bastogne: In the dead of winter, a starving E Company fought alone in the forests outside of Bastogne, Belgium, defending the Allied lines, with only a small amount of supplies and ammunition arriving, but none of the winter clothing. The Germans demanded their surrender at this point, to which Brigadier General McAuliffe, who led the troops, replied with a single word: "Bah!" That word became the most famous in the history of World War II!
7. Breaking Point: Exhausted after hindering the Germans in the Belgian city of Bastogne, E Company had to take a neighboring town, Foy, from the enemy. A fierce artillery bombardment, resulting in the deaths and injuries of several of his brothers and sisters-in-arms, coupled with the incompetence of the commander, Lt. Dyck, leaves Winters helpless as well. In the end, E Company captured the town of Foy, but at a terrible cost.
8, the final patrol: E Company came to the German border in the Alsatian region of the town of Hagner, they were ordered to send 15 scouts, crossing the river to catch the enemy as prisoners, just graduated from West Point, Lieutenant Jones, eager to get real combat experience, so voluntarily took this task, the mission, although successful, but also sacrificed a paratrooper. The incident prompted Winters to violate his superiors' orders.
9. WHY THE BATTLE: E Company finally made it into Germany, and incredibly, they didn't encounter any major obstacles, giving them a chance to breathe a sigh of relief after such a long battle.
10, Points: Berchtesgaden, in the Bavarian province of southern Germany, was originally the home base of the top Nazi German army leaders, and E Company entered the area and wiped out Hitler's hilltop fortress in one fell swoop. At this point, E Company was faced with an urgent deployment to the Pacific Theater, and all the soldiers began comparing their 'scores' to see who was most qualified to return home with honor. At this point, the Japanese finally surrendered, ending World War II.
Extended:
Band of Brothers is a 10-episode American television series that aired in 2001, adapted from Stephen Ambrose's bestselling book Band of Brothers, directed by David Frankel and starring Damien Lewis and other Hollywood stars, depicting the true story of E Company of the 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne Division of the United States in the European theater of World War II. In World War II, E Company suffered one and a half times the number of casualties than the company's complement.
The film was nominated 15 times and won 7 times each at the major U.S. film and television awards in 2002***, including 13 nominations at the 54th Emmy Awards, winning 6 awards, including the Miniseries/Television Movie category-Best Miniseries, etc.; and 2 nominations at the 59th U.S. Movie and Television Golden Globe Awards, winning the Television category-Best Miniseries/Television Movie Award.