[RandFan]

It was actually yesterday (I just saw it now)

[srmanuel]

The Author who wrote the article “Band of Brothers”, the late Stephen Ambrose started a historical tour company that still operates, back in 2018 I went on their Band of Brothers tour, starting in Toccoa and all the way to Berchtesgaden and the Eagles Nest. The tour includes more than following the path of Easy Company, we spent 2-days of the 14-day tour in Normandy and other points of interest, a really fantastic trip.

[ansel12]

An old girlfriend sent me one of these.

Band of Brothers - Wild Bill Guarnere Autographed Photo
https://www.museumstorecompany.com/WWII-Band-of-Brothers-Wild-Bill-Guarnere-Autographed-Photo-Framed-p5113.html

[Rockingham]

The long and brutal combat experienced by the men in Band of Brothers was duplicated by many thousands of American soldiers in WW II on D-Day and afterwards. For example, the father of a family friend was a young lieutenant in the first wave to land on Omaha Beach and then fought across France and into Germany. Remarkably, he had to put a pistol to the head of the British naval rating who was piloting his landing craft in order to make him go all the way to the beach. Otherwise, as Saving Private Ryan accurately showed, the entire boatload of men would have drowned by being dumped into water over their heads.