The show follows the paratroopers of Easy Company and their leader, Richard D. Winters, from their early training days at Camp Toccoa through to the end of World War II. The real Band of Brothers ...

He volunteered for the paratroopers and "on February 5 ... 101st Airborne Division," the obituary said.As a mortarman for Easy Company, he jumped in the D-Day Normandy invasion, per the ...

Thomas Meehan, was killed when the C-47 carrying Meehan and his paratroopers was shot down before they could jump. The stiff resolve of Easy Company's NCOs speaks to the closeness inherent in the ...

Executive producers Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks tell the moving story of elite World War Two paratrooper unit, Easy Company. Based on the book by the late Stephen E Ambrose, the series depicts ...

He volunteered for the paratroopers and “on February 5 ... according to the obituary. The story of Easy Company was depicted in the HBO miniseries “Band of Brothers,” based on the New ...