They'd be there one day, and they'd be gone the next." Bill Guarnere added, " They couldn't keep up, you understand. In the documentary We Stand Alone Together, Paul "Buck" Rogers said, " They weeded out so many. Robert "Popeye" Wynn later recalled that some of the men in the unit lost 40lbs during their training. Under Sobel's leadership, the men of Easy Company were pushed through relentlessly punishing daily drills. This is the closest the series gets to portraying just how many Easy Company recruits didn't make it through training at Camp Toccoa.
When Lipton prompts him to get a move on, White continues to ignore the order, and Lipton relents and leaves him there. Dozens Of Easy Company Recruits Dropped Out During TrainingĪt the start of Band of Brothers' first episode, "Currahee," Captain Herbert Sobel orders 2nd platoon to run up and down the mountain - an exhausting " three miles up, three miles down." As they're leaving the barracks, Carwood Lipton notices that one member of the platoon, Private White, is sitting on his bed and making no move to join the other men on their run. Here are some of the stories that didn't make it into Band of Brothers. Related: HBO Max: Every Movie & TV Show Coming In June 2021īand of Brothers is packed with incredible stories from Easy Company's time fighting in World War II, but even with the expanded running time that a miniseries offers over a film, there's still a lot that got left out. They later took part in Operation Market Garden in Holland, held the Allied line over a frigid winter in Bastogne, Belgium, and captured Hitler's personal mountaintop retreat, the Eagle's Nest. Easy Company parachuted behind enemy lines on D-Day and saved American troops landing on Utah beach by destroying the German artillery guns that were firing on them. Ambrose, Band of Brothers was executive produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks after their successful collaboration on another big-budget war drama, Saving Private Ryan.īy virtue of being a miniseries rather than a film, with its story told over 10 episodes, Band of Brothers is able to follow the 101st Airborne paratroopers of Easy Company from their early days of training all the way through to the end of the war. Based on the book of the same name by Stephen A. HBO's World War II miniseries Band of Brothers, released in 2001, was given high praise for its accurate depiction of American paratroopers in the war, but there are still some parts of the true story that are left out.
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