1 00:03:05,894 --> 00:03:08,147 It was more than 3 years since Lewis Nixon... 2 00:03:08,314 --> 00:03:11,400 And I decided to join the paratroops. 3 00:03:11,567 --> 00:03:14,570 And more than a year since we 'd first gone to war. 4 00:03:14,737 --> 00:03:19,616 Not knowing what would happen to us. How long we 'd be fighting. 5 00:03:19,783 --> 00:03:22,161 Where we'd end up. 6 00:03:22,328 --> 00:03:26,540 I certainly didn't expect to find myself in a place like this. 7 00:03:30,002 --> 00:03:32,421 I thought it might be you. 8 00:03:35,382 --> 00:03:37,259 Morning. 9 00:03:38,552 --> 00:03:42,181 I heard reports about a redheaded eskimo. 10 00:03:43,182 --> 00:03:45,726 Thought I'd check it out. 11 00:03:45,893 --> 00:03:48,145 Come to join me for a morning swim? 12 00:03:50,147 --> 00:03:53,525 Yeah. You know me so well. 13 00:03:53,692 --> 00:03:56,737 Here. It's from zielinski. 14 00:03:57,571 --> 00:03:59,239 Oh, great. 15 00:04:03,452 --> 00:04:04,953 What is that? 16 00:04:05,245 --> 00:04:08,123 Ran into the regimental photographer. 17 00:04:08,290 --> 00:04:12,503 Said he had all these photographs of the 506th... 18 00:04:12,669 --> 00:04:15,297 Going all the way back to toccoa. 19 00:04:15,464 --> 00:04:20,219 - I traded them for a couple of lugers. - That's a bargain. 20 00:04:30,687 --> 00:04:35,275 - What do you think you'll do after this? - Get some breakfast. 21 00:04:37,778 --> 00:04:40,280 No. After, after. 22 00:04:45,244 --> 00:04:49,581 Well, it's funny you should mention it because I had a meeting with col. Sink. 23 00:04:52,876 --> 00:04:56,839 Yeah, discussed the possibility of staying. 24 00:04:57,005 --> 00:04:58,841 In the army? 25 00:04:59,758 --> 00:05:03,053 Yeah. Yeah, as a career. 26 00:05:04,888 --> 00:05:06,932 What'd you say? 27 00:05:19,236 --> 00:05:23,031 - What do you think about New Jersey? - New Jersey? 28 00:05:23,198 --> 00:05:27,828 There's a company in Nixon, New Jersey. It's called Nixon nitration works. 29 00:05:27,995 --> 00:05:30,330 - Sounds picturesque. - Yeah, well... 30 00:05:30,497 --> 00:05:33,709 Oddly enough, I know the owners. 31 00:05:34,376 --> 00:05:38,255 Probably gonna expect me to make something of myself. 32 00:05:38,464 --> 00:05:41,383 I thought maybe I'd drag you with me. 33 00:05:44,595 --> 00:05:47,723 Are you offering me a job? 34 00:05:51,059 --> 00:05:55,856 We'll see how you do in your interview, but a man of your qualifications... 35 00:05:56,023 --> 00:06:01,570 I think can probably scrape something up commensurate with your current salary level. 36 00:06:05,407 --> 00:06:07,868 Yeah, I'll think about it. 37 00:06:10,078 --> 00:06:13,790 I... I really appreciate it. 38 00:06:14,124 --> 00:06:17,127 Yeah, just think about it. 39 00:06:52,746 --> 00:06:54,373 Job offers. 40 00:06:54,998 --> 00:06:56,792 Hard to fathom. 41 00:06:56,959 --> 00:06:59,753 And the war wasn't even over. 42 00:07:00,212 --> 00:07:04,716 I was still getting used to hot showers and morning swims. 43 00:07:15,227 --> 00:07:20,232 We 'd entered Bavaria in early may with the hopes of capturing berchtesgaden. 44 00:07:20,399 --> 00:07:25,237 This famous town, high in the alps, was the Nazi party's symbolic home. 45 00:07:25,404 --> 00:07:28,490 And all the heads of the third reich had houses there. 46 00:07:28,657 --> 00:07:32,035 Although Hitler was dead, he had apparently ordered the ss... 47 00:07:32,202 --> 00:07:34,282 To make it their last stand from which to mount... 48 00:07:34,329 --> 00:07:37,040 A guerilla resistance against the allied advance. 49 00:07:37,207 --> 00:07:41,253 The first step was blocking the roads. 50 00:07:46,258 --> 00:07:48,552 When are we expecting the engineers to arrive? 51 00:07:48,719 --> 00:07:52,514 - Half an hour ago. - So we're stuck here until they do, nix. 52 00:07:52,681 --> 00:07:56,852 Well, if you're the ss, you're not gonna let us waltz into Hitler's house. 53 00:07:57,019 --> 00:07:59,104 Probably throw a few rocks at us yourself. 54 00:07:59,271 --> 00:08:01,207 If you're looking for someone to find another way up that mountain... 55 00:08:01,231 --> 00:08:03,442 - Easy company is ready and willing. - Duly noted. 56 00:08:03,609 --> 00:08:05,652 I already recommended you to col. Sink. 57 00:08:05,819 --> 00:08:09,615 - Terrific. Let's go find out where Hitler lived. - Ron. We're not sure what's up there. 58 00:08:09,781 --> 00:08:13,410 The colonel doesn't want us taking any unnecessary risks. 59 00:08:13,577 --> 00:08:16,913 So the French are gonna beat us to the eagle's nest? 60 00:08:30,427 --> 00:08:33,138 Gents, I just had a conversation with gen. Leclerc. 61 00:08:33,305 --> 00:08:35,185 He told me he was first into Paris and by god... 62 00:08:35,265 --> 00:08:38,393 He wanted to be first into berchtesgaden. 63 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:43,315 Told him I understood his point. 64 00:08:45,108 --> 00:08:48,487 Now you fire up 2nd battalion and outflank that French son of a bitch. 65 00:08:48,654 --> 00:08:50,113 Yes, sir. 66 00:08:55,452 --> 00:08:58,455 I want easy company in the lead. Have the men assemble down on the autobahn. 67 00:08:58,622 --> 00:09:00,332 Yes, sir. 68 00:09:36,910 --> 00:09:38,412 Eene. 69 00:09:39,246 --> 00:09:41,498 Not even any natives. 70 00:09:41,665 --> 00:09:45,836 That's because this is the one town you can't deny being a true Nazi. 71 00:09:46,086 --> 00:09:49,464 - What do you mean? - Well, you have to be to live here. 72 00:09:49,631 --> 00:09:53,009 We need to find some place we can put the colonel. 73 00:09:53,176 --> 00:09:55,554 How about right there? 74 00:10:23,832 --> 00:10:25,667 No, no. 75 00:10:59,534 --> 00:11:01,828 Kitty would love this. 76 00:11:01,995 --> 00:11:05,665 How many brides get a wedding present from Hitler? 77 00:11:08,627 --> 00:11:10,670 You wanna take half? 78 00:11:10,837 --> 00:11:12,923 I can't carry all this. 79 00:11:13,089 --> 00:11:16,927 You know, whoever comes in here after us is just gonna take whatever isn't nailed down. 80 00:11:17,093 --> 00:11:20,639 Well. Wouldn't want that to happen. 81 00:11:25,727 --> 00:11:28,939 - Nice. - Don't even think about it. 82 00:11:38,281 --> 00:11:41,701 - Maj. Winters. Sir. - More. 83 00:11:41,868 --> 00:11:44,079 Permission to climb the mountain, sir? Eagle's nest? 84 00:11:44,246 --> 00:11:47,707 - What is this? - Wait one minute. 85 00:11:48,166 --> 00:11:50,752 Harry, have f company put a double guard on the hotel. 86 00:11:50,919 --> 00:11:52,879 Set up roadblocks on the West Side of town. 87 00:11:53,046 --> 00:11:57,050 I want battalion hq, seal off the north side, and prepare for prisoners. 88 00:11:57,217 --> 00:11:59,386 - Sgt. Grant. - And Harry... 89 00:11:59,719 --> 00:12:02,347 Nobody gets hurt, not now. 90 00:12:04,724 --> 00:12:06,351 And easy? 91 00:12:07,644 --> 00:12:10,897 Easy will head up the mountain through the obersalzburg... 92 00:12:11,064 --> 00:12:13,441 And take the eagle's nest. 93 00:12:15,944 --> 00:12:18,029 Hi-yo, silver! 94 00:12:23,243 --> 00:12:26,037 Yeah! Currahee! 95 00:12:26,204 --> 00:12:29,332 The eagle's nest was a surprise birthday present for Hitler... 96 00:12:29,499 --> 00:12:31,376 Built with Nazi party money. 97 00:12:31,668 --> 00:12:34,629 A mountaintop stone retreat 8000 feet up... 98 00:12:34,838 --> 00:12:37,507 Accessible by a gold-plated elevator. 99 00:12:37,674 --> 00:12:40,844 It was one of the crown jewels of his empire... 100 00:12:41,011 --> 00:12:43,179 And the man was afraid of heights. 101 00:13:30,060 --> 00:13:31,227 Here's to him. 102 00:13:45,992 --> 00:13:47,744 No, goddamn it, listen. 103 00:13:48,119 --> 00:13:49,871 Hitler, Hitler... no. 104 00:13:50,038 --> 00:13:56,461 Hitler, himmler, goering, goebbels and the pope walk into a bar... 105 00:13:56,628 --> 00:14:00,298 - Because he drinks too much... - That's how it starts. 106 00:14:00,548 --> 00:14:04,469 Hey, Adolf! Love your eagle's nest. I hope you don't mind. 107 00:14:04,636 --> 00:14:09,724 We made ourselves at home. Love what you done with the place. Hey, have a drink. 108 00:14:09,891 --> 00:14:13,561 Come on. Just so we can say we saw you do it. 109 00:14:13,728 --> 00:14:15,230 Listen up. 110 00:14:16,523 --> 00:14:18,566 From corps, just came in. Effective immediately. 111 00:14:18,733 --> 00:14:22,654 "All troops stand fast on present positions." 112 00:14:23,822 --> 00:14:26,825 - Standing fast. - What does that mean? 113 00:14:27,993 --> 00:14:30,203 Wanna hear it? 114 00:14:31,162 --> 00:14:35,375 Ready for it? Listen up. German army's surrendered. 115 00:14:41,506 --> 00:14:44,884 I got a present for you. Come on. 116 00:14:46,261 --> 00:14:47,887 Is it? Yeah? 117 00:15:09,159 --> 00:15:11,953 - What is this place? - Hermann goering's house. 118 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:15,540 We discovered it yesterday. Had it on double guard ever since. 119 00:15:15,707 --> 00:15:18,752 - I can vouch for that, sir. - Oh, anxious to get off duty, o'keefe? 120 00:15:18,918 --> 00:15:22,297 No, there's just so much to see and do, sir. 121 00:15:57,665 --> 00:16:01,586 10,000 bottles of the world's finest liquor, wine and champagne... 122 00:16:01,753 --> 00:16:05,799 Helped easy company Mark the day the war in Europe came to an end. 123 00:16:05,965 --> 00:16:07,801 It's all yours. 124 00:16:08,593 --> 00:16:12,514 Take what you want and then have each company take a truckload. 125 00:16:13,139 --> 00:16:14,742 We're heading for Austria in the morning... 126 00:16:14,766 --> 00:16:17,203 But don't feel you have to leave anything here for whoever comes here next. 127 00:16:17,227 --> 00:16:19,979 - Austria, sir? - Happy v-e day. 128 00:16:24,818 --> 00:16:26,736 V—e day? 129 00:16:27,153 --> 00:16:29,864 Victory in Europe. 130 00:16:36,830 --> 00:16:39,290 Happy v-e day. 131 00:16:41,626 --> 00:16:45,713 Instead of an aggressive combat unit, we became an occupation force. 132 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:50,135 And no one wanted to leave berchtesgaden. Until they saw Austria. 133 00:17:27,172 --> 00:17:31,259 So you reckon they'll make us run up those or ski down them? 134 00:17:49,819 --> 00:17:53,156 Hey, how are you? Need a hand there? 135 00:17:53,573 --> 00:17:56,326 Hi! Hi! He loves you. 136 00:17:56,659 --> 00:18:00,163 Hey, lady, how are you? 137 00:18:02,999 --> 00:18:06,044 I think the war is over! 138 00:18:38,701 --> 00:18:41,120 We'll be comfortable here. 139 00:18:45,792 --> 00:18:49,295 I wonder what will happen to us, to people like you and me... 140 00:18:49,545 --> 00:18:54,259 When there are finally no more wars to occupy us? 141 00:18:57,804 --> 00:18:59,430 Have all your men collect the weapons. 142 00:18:59,597 --> 00:19:03,268 Deposit them at the church, the school and at the airfield. 143 00:19:03,434 --> 00:19:05,144 Very well. 144 00:19:12,568 --> 00:19:16,239 Please accept this as my formal surrender, major. 145 00:19:16,406 --> 00:19:20,118 It is better than to lay it on the desk of a clerk. 146 00:19:27,500 --> 00:19:30,461 You may keep your sidearm, colonel. 147 00:19:44,225 --> 00:19:46,436 Heroic dead of a combined army and marine force... 148 00:19:46,602 --> 00:19:48,646 Mark the grim battlefield of okinawa... 149 00:19:48,813 --> 00:19:51,816 Where one of the bloodiest engagements of the war is being fought. 150 00:19:52,025 --> 00:19:55,129 Thousands of yanks have been wounded and thousands have sacrificed their lives... 151 00:19:55,153 --> 00:19:56,612 Hey, sharpe. 152 00:19:56,779 --> 00:20:00,074 To drive a fanatical foe from this vital base. 153 00:20:00,783 --> 00:20:03,786 Along the jap's southern defense line, the yanks progress slowly... 154 00:20:03,953 --> 00:20:06,956 Facing one of the fiercest artillery barrages of the war. 155 00:20:07,123 --> 00:20:12,170 Each small advance is gained by sheer grit in the face of withering fire... 156 00:20:12,337 --> 00:20:16,382 From a suicidal enemy being slowly hammered back into the hills. 157 00:20:16,549 --> 00:20:18,885 The going is brutal and our casualties are high... 158 00:20:19,052 --> 00:20:22,764 But okinawa is the next big step towards victory over Japan. 159 00:20:22,930 --> 00:20:29,354 A victory that can only be won by work, war bonds and heroic sacrifice. 160 00:20:36,361 --> 00:20:39,864 - So when are we going? - We don't have a date yet. 161 00:20:40,031 --> 00:20:42,408 Are we to tell the men right away? 162 00:20:42,575 --> 00:20:44,911 Some of them will have enough points to go home instead. 163 00:20:45,078 --> 00:20:48,873 Not many, if their only medal's a purple heart. 164 00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:52,293 I think most of us here will have enough. 165 00:20:52,460 --> 00:20:54,962 And each of us will have to decide what to do. 166 00:20:55,129 --> 00:20:57,632 I don't know how long we're waiting here for orders... 167 00:20:57,799 --> 00:21:03,012 But I want those veterans who are staying, and all new replacements, ready to fight. 168 00:21:03,179 --> 00:21:06,557 That means rifle ranges. That means daily close-order drills. 169 00:21:06,724 --> 00:21:09,602 That means troop reviews. But above all, it means physical training. 170 00:21:09,769 --> 00:21:12,271 Get your ncos on it. 171 00:21:13,731 --> 00:21:15,400 They're gonna love you. 172 00:21:19,695 --> 00:21:22,198 What are you crouching down for, perco? 173 00:21:22,365 --> 00:21:25,993 - Think the deer's gonna shoot back? - Leave me alone. 174 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:30,790 How about y'all just shut up. Let shifty kill us some dinner. 175 00:21:30,957 --> 00:21:35,294 What's the matter, bull? You tired of eating dried-up spuds three times a day? 176 00:21:35,461 --> 00:21:39,006 Hey, you know what, I got an idea. Why don't we just shoot bull here... 177 00:21:39,173 --> 00:21:40,967 And feed the company for a week? 178 00:22:08,911 --> 00:22:11,247 Oh, goddamn it, shifty. 179 00:22:11,414 --> 00:22:15,626 You let him get away. Army ought to be glad to be rid of you. 180 00:22:15,793 --> 00:22:19,213 I wish, you know. Seems they want me to stay around a while. 181 00:22:19,380 --> 00:22:21,757 - You serious? - How many points you need? 182 00:22:21,924 --> 00:22:23,468 - Fifteen. - Fifteen? 183 00:22:23,634 --> 00:22:27,263 Jesus Christ, I thought I had it bad. 184 00:22:27,430 --> 00:22:29,932 No purple hearts, never was injured. 185 00:22:30,099 --> 00:22:32,351 - Company! - Platoon! 186 00:22:38,566 --> 00:22:40,318 Right shoulder... 187 00:22:40,818 --> 00:22:42,195 Arms! 188 00:22:46,991 --> 00:22:48,284 Arms! 189 00:22:51,412 --> 00:22:53,122 At ease. 190 00:22:55,208 --> 00:22:59,504 Gen. Taylor is aware that many veterans, including normandy veterans... 191 00:22:59,670 --> 00:23:03,257 Still do not have the 85 points required to be discharged. 192 00:23:03,424 --> 00:23:07,512 On this, the anniversary of d-day, he has authorized a lottery... 193 00:23:07,678 --> 00:23:11,974 To send one man home in each company, effective immediately. 194 00:23:12,141 --> 00:23:15,770 For easy company, the winner is... 195 00:23:21,776 --> 00:23:23,778 Come on, come on, come on. 196 00:23:30,368 --> 00:23:35,081 - Sgt. Darrell c. Powers. - —shifty. 197 00:23:35,540 --> 00:23:38,209 That's how it's done, shifty. 198 00:23:40,378 --> 00:23:42,421 Congratulations, shifty. 199 00:23:42,588 --> 00:23:46,676 Sgt. Grant will see to it that 2nd platoon takes over at the crossroads checkpoint... 200 00:23:46,884 --> 00:23:49,220 Beginning tonight at 2200 hours. 201 00:23:49,387 --> 00:23:52,014 - So much for our anniversary. - No shit. 202 00:23:52,181 --> 00:23:56,143 Gen. Taylor has also announced that the 101st airborne division... 203 00:23:56,310 --> 00:24:00,690 Will definitely be redeployed to the pacific. 204 00:24:01,023 --> 00:24:07,405 So beginning tomorrow at 0600 hours, we will begin training to go to war. 205 00:24:15,329 --> 00:24:16,872 Come in. 206 00:24:23,921 --> 00:24:30,136 I don't mean to interrupt you, sir. I just wanted to say goodbye. 207 00:24:30,970 --> 00:24:33,097 You know, you was... 208 00:24:35,141 --> 00:24:37,143 You was... 209 00:24:38,394 --> 00:24:42,690 Well, it's been a long time. 210 00:24:45,026 --> 00:24:48,779 - You got everything you need? - Yes, sir. I gathered up my loot. 211 00:24:49,196 --> 00:24:52,575 Pistols, mainly. Paperwork's all done. 212 00:24:52,742 --> 00:24:55,661 I even got my back pay in my pocket. 213 00:25:00,499 --> 00:25:03,461 Back home in Virginia... 214 00:25:06,255 --> 00:25:07,798 Well... 215 00:25:10,843 --> 00:25:15,264 I just don't rightly know how I'm gonna explain all this. 216 00:25:19,143 --> 00:25:21,103 You see, I... 217 00:25:22,021 --> 00:25:25,650 I seen... I seen... 218 00:25:27,151 --> 00:25:30,363 You're a hell of a fine soldier, shifty. 219 00:25:30,655 --> 00:25:33,449 There's nothing more to explain. 220 00:25:36,494 --> 00:25:38,496 Thank you, sir. 221 00:25:46,671 --> 00:25:48,923 Two days later, shifty powers was on a truck... 222 00:25:49,090 --> 00:25:51,509 Headed for the rear and a boat home. 223 00:25:51,676 --> 00:25:56,472 Unfortunately, the truck was hit head-on by a drunken corporal from another regiment. 224 00:25:56,639 --> 00:26:01,060 Shifty had a broken pelvis, a broken arm and a bad concussion. 225 00:26:01,227 --> 00:26:05,147 He survived, but had to spend the next few months in a series of hospitals. 226 00:26:05,314 --> 00:26:09,026 I wish I could say that he was our only casualty in Austria. 227 00:26:09,193 --> 00:26:13,280 I've made up my mind, nix. I got the points, I'm going back to kitty. 228 00:26:13,447 --> 00:26:17,827 Harry, do you really think that kitty hasn't run off with some 4-f by now? 229 00:26:17,993 --> 00:26:21,414 Son of a bitch. That's not even funny. 230 00:26:21,580 --> 00:26:23,249 Harry, ignore him. 231 00:26:23,499 --> 00:26:26,836 How am I supposed to tell her I had the chance to come home to her finally... 232 00:26:27,002 --> 00:26:29,255 Decided not to so I could go jump on Tokyo? 233 00:26:29,422 --> 00:26:32,425 All right, so don't tell her. 234 00:26:33,050 --> 00:26:35,803 Besides, she's waited for you for three years, right? 235 00:26:35,970 --> 00:26:38,889 We'll be back to Tokyo and back in two years, three tops. 236 00:26:39,056 --> 00:26:41,892 It'll probably be over before you even get there. 237 00:26:42,059 --> 00:26:44,955 Reality is, you're gonna sit here in Austria for six months, waiting to go... 238 00:26:44,979 --> 00:26:47,440 And I'm gonna be back in wilkes-barre making babies. 239 00:26:47,606 --> 00:26:50,526 - You didn't tell him? - No, I couldn't get him to shut up. 240 00:26:52,027 --> 00:26:54,488 What? Tell me what? 241 00:26:54,864 --> 00:26:58,576 - Guts and glory here applied for a transfer. - What? 242 00:26:58,951 --> 00:27:03,330 13th airborne are heading out for the pacific right away. 243 00:27:06,208 --> 00:27:09,378 If I'm going, I wanna get it over with. 244 00:27:11,547 --> 00:27:13,828 - Are you in on this too? - I can't let him go by himself. 245 00:27:13,924 --> 00:27:15,926 He doesn't know where it is. 246 00:27:19,138 --> 00:27:21,474 You're leaving the men? 247 00:27:23,225 --> 00:27:25,770 They don't need me anymore. 248 00:27:36,238 --> 00:27:37,823 Wounded in normandy? 249 00:27:37,990 --> 00:27:42,119 Yes, sir. In the leg. It was a minor flesh wound. 250 00:27:42,286 --> 00:27:46,248 - Company e lost 24 men killed there. - Yes, sir. 251 00:27:46,999 --> 00:27:51,337 Seventeen of those were in my company commander's plane. It went down on d-day. 252 00:27:51,837 --> 00:27:55,216 So you were given command of the company on d-day? 253 00:27:55,382 --> 00:27:57,051 That's right. 254 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:09,188 Fall back to your original positions! 255 00:28:09,355 --> 00:28:13,818 Everyone else maintain your pace of fire! 256 00:28:22,660 --> 00:28:27,581 In Holland, they bumped you to battalion xo. 257 00:28:28,541 --> 00:28:30,084 Yes, sir. 258 00:28:34,213 --> 00:28:37,424 Bastards took your company away. 259 00:29:04,910 --> 00:29:07,621 I fired my last shots there. 260 00:29:08,873 --> 00:29:11,125 For the whole damn war? 261 00:29:11,625 --> 00:29:13,294 Yes, sir. 262 00:29:15,296 --> 00:29:18,924 You got through bastogne without having to fire your weapon? 263 00:29:19,091 --> 00:29:20,551 That is correct, sir. 264 00:29:20,718 --> 00:29:24,930 - And you were on the line the whole time? - Yes, sir. 265 00:29:27,516 --> 00:29:30,644 Can't imagine a tougher test for a leader. 266 00:29:30,811 --> 00:29:35,524 Having to sit through a siege like that, under those conditions. 267 00:29:35,691 --> 00:29:36,859 We got through it. 268 00:29:37,026 --> 00:29:38,569 Come on! Find some cover! 269 00:29:38,736 --> 00:29:42,907 Find some cover! Find a foxhole! Come on, take cover! 270 00:29:44,241 --> 00:29:46,118 Take cover! 271 00:29:50,748 --> 00:29:53,417 Come on, find some cover! 272 00:29:56,545 --> 00:30:00,257 - So why do you want a transfer? - Sorry, sir? 273 00:30:00,758 --> 00:30:03,260 I said, why do you want to leave your men? 274 00:30:03,427 --> 00:30:06,972 It's not that, sir. It's just that if the war was still on in the pacific... 275 00:30:07,139 --> 00:30:09,183 And I could do some good over there... 276 00:30:09,350 --> 00:30:12,478 Looking to have your own division some day? 277 00:30:12,645 --> 00:30:13,938 No, sir. 278 00:30:14,104 --> 00:30:17,274 - Not gonna make a career of the army? - No. 279 00:30:17,441 --> 00:30:20,736 Ye... well, I don't know, sir. 280 00:30:21,737 --> 00:30:27,242 Because if you think you need more combat experience to get stars on your helmet... 281 00:30:27,409 --> 00:30:30,412 Let me tell you something, son: 282 00:30:30,579 --> 00:30:32,873 You've done enough. 283 00:30:35,042 --> 00:30:37,962 Thank you, sir. That's not my objective. 284 00:30:45,844 --> 00:30:49,765 Major, I took this meeting out of respect for your achievements. 285 00:30:49,932 --> 00:30:51,892 And for the 101st. 286 00:30:52,810 --> 00:30:56,480 If they do go to the pacific eventually... 287 00:30:56,647 --> 00:30:59,817 You should be running one of the battalions. 288 00:31:01,110 --> 00:31:02,861 Thank you, sir. 289 00:31:04,947 --> 00:31:08,784 And frankly, I think your men have earned the right to keep you around. 290 00:31:15,165 --> 00:31:16,667 Yes, sir. 291 00:31:17,543 --> 00:31:19,253 Thank you, sir. 292 00:31:24,258 --> 00:31:28,679 So I would stay in Austria for the time being, waiting for orders... 293 00:31:28,846 --> 00:31:32,933 And trying to watch over soldiers who had no enemy to fight. 294 00:31:33,100 --> 00:31:37,563 - Lieb, I fucking hate this. - Jesus Christ. They fingered him. 295 00:31:37,730 --> 00:31:41,050 He was in the fucking room, webb. One of those polacks who was at the slave camps... 296 00:31:41,150 --> 00:31:42,669 Said this is where the guy lives. Right here. 297 00:31:42,693 --> 00:31:44,862 - Which camp? - Whatever camp. 298 00:31:46,572 --> 00:31:50,034 I'm under direct orders and I'm happy to follow it. 299 00:32:09,178 --> 00:32:11,764 - Is this a personal thing, Joe? - What? 300 00:32:11,930 --> 00:32:15,851 - Is this personal to you? - No, it's a goddamn order. 301 00:32:16,018 --> 00:32:19,354 - Does maj. Winters know about this? - Doesn't matter here. 302 00:32:19,521 --> 00:32:22,649 The fuck it doesn't. What if this guy's just a soldier? 303 00:32:22,816 --> 00:32:25,903 What if he's an officer with no ties to the ss? What if he's innocent? 304 00:32:26,070 --> 00:32:28,965 You know what? What if he's a fucking Nazi commandant of a fucking slave camp? 305 00:32:28,989 --> 00:32:31,617 Which one? Which camp? You don't have any proof. 306 00:32:31,784 --> 00:32:33,952 Were you at landsberg? 307 00:32:34,119 --> 00:32:35,662 You know I was. 308 00:32:35,829 --> 00:32:42,002 You think he's a soldier like you and me? A fucking innocent German officer? 309 00:32:42,169 --> 00:32:45,506 Where the hell you been for the past three years? 310 00:32:52,096 --> 00:32:53,514 What? 311 00:32:54,848 --> 00:32:56,308 Shut up. 312 00:33:14,576 --> 00:33:16,829 Don't fucking lie to me. 313 00:33:17,579 --> 00:33:21,083 See what you did to my fucking people! 314 00:33:21,375 --> 00:33:23,001 That's it. 315 00:33:49,695 --> 00:33:51,321 He's guilty. 316 00:33:53,824 --> 00:33:57,619 - Liebgott says so. - He probably is. 317 00:34:05,669 --> 00:34:07,129 Goddamn son of a bitch. 318 00:34:07,296 --> 00:34:08,881 Shoot him. 319 00:34:10,340 --> 00:34:11,967 - Shoot him! - No. 320 00:34:35,282 --> 00:34:40,871 - Officers don't run. - The war's over. Anybody would run. 321 00:34:42,873 --> 00:34:46,710 Summer in this alpine paradise should've been a welcome relief. 322 00:34:46,877 --> 00:34:49,796 Especially now that we were at peace with the Germans. 323 00:34:49,963 --> 00:34:51,798 Everyone just wanted to go home. 324 00:34:51,965 --> 00:34:55,260 - France. France was the best. - Really? 325 00:34:57,179 --> 00:35:03,310 Five years. I think I was in every country, but France was the best. 326 00:35:07,814 --> 00:35:12,152 Italy would be second for me. Russia is not desirable. 327 00:35:12,319 --> 00:35:15,072 Ukraine, it was okay. 328 00:35:15,948 --> 00:35:18,492 So when do you get out? 329 00:35:18,659 --> 00:35:23,330 The unit is discharged. We leave when my captain gets transferred. 330 00:35:23,497 --> 00:35:26,917 - It is the end of my second war. - Jesus! 331 00:35:27,084 --> 00:35:30,712 - I'm going home now, to mannheim. - I'll take this one. 332 00:35:35,717 --> 00:35:37,177 Okay. 333 00:35:42,182 --> 00:35:44,393 Hey, Webster. My relief. 334 00:35:44,559 --> 00:35:49,147 - Don't salute the Germans. - Come on. I sort of get a kick out of it. 335 00:35:49,314 --> 00:35:52,651 Anyway, I got me a new enemy. The japs. 336 00:35:52,818 --> 00:35:57,239 Seventy-five points. How about you? I mean, you're a toccoa guy, right? 337 00:35:57,406 --> 00:36:00,492 - How many you got? - Wouldn't you like to know? 338 00:36:03,787 --> 00:36:05,747 Discharged, huh? 339 00:36:06,873 --> 00:36:11,211 - Go ahead, take off. It's my turn. - Okay. See you back at the farm. 340 00:36:13,005 --> 00:36:16,049 -Eighty-one. —huh? 341 00:36:16,508 --> 00:36:18,552 I have 81 points. 342 00:36:19,761 --> 00:36:22,264 Well, that's just not good enough. 343 00:36:28,562 --> 00:36:31,231 See about getting you a ride. 344 00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:34,943 Hey. Hey. Where are they going? 345 00:36:35,110 --> 00:36:37,529 Munich. Munchen, Munich. 346 00:36:38,238 --> 00:36:40,198 Wanna go to Munich? 347 00:37:01,720 --> 00:37:03,263 Turn the wheel! 348 00:37:06,183 --> 00:37:08,352 Oh, Jesus. 349 00:37:21,406 --> 00:37:23,492 It's pvt. Janovec. 350 00:37:26,578 --> 00:37:29,206 He was dead when they brought him in. 351 00:37:32,709 --> 00:37:34,961 Seventy-five points. 352 00:37:35,337 --> 00:37:38,215 - What? - He was 10 points short. 353 00:37:40,133 --> 00:37:44,763 The enemy had surrendered, but somehow men were still dying. 354 00:37:44,930 --> 00:37:47,432 Young men who wanted to be home with their families by now... 355 00:37:47,599 --> 00:37:49,839 Who'd served with distinction since before normandy... 356 00:37:49,976 --> 00:37:53,063 Were stuck here because they didn't have the points. 357 00:37:53,230 --> 00:37:59,528 What they did have plenty of were weapons, alcohol and too much time on their hands. 358 00:38:00,153 --> 00:38:04,866 All of a sudden, from out of nowhere, a guy jumps out of the hedgerow... 359 00:38:05,033 --> 00:38:10,288 Shoves a trench knife up against his throat and screams, "whose side are you on?" 360 00:38:11,123 --> 00:38:12,416 I don't get it. 361 00:38:12,582 --> 00:38:15,961 It's d-day. It's 2nd platoon's own bill guarnere. 362 00:38:16,128 --> 00:38:18,839 Old gonorrhea himself. Just landed in normandy... 363 00:38:19,005 --> 00:38:20,549 And wound up like I don't know what. 364 00:38:20,715 --> 00:38:23,051 "Whose side are you on?" What a fucking character. 365 00:38:23,427 --> 00:38:25,178 What happened to him? 366 00:38:26,012 --> 00:38:29,015 Got his leg blown off in bastogne. 367 00:38:37,149 --> 00:38:39,860 You okay, Mac? You need some help? 368 00:38:46,241 --> 00:38:49,244 They wouldn't give me any gas. 369 00:38:49,536 --> 00:38:51,163 Krauts. 370 00:38:56,460 --> 00:38:58,503 I tried to explain. 371 00:39:00,005 --> 00:39:03,842 This fucking limey wouldn't listen. 372 00:39:04,885 --> 00:39:07,262 I think he was a major. 373 00:39:07,429 --> 00:39:11,475 - Look, private, we got a problem here. - Do you have any gas? 374 00:39:12,184 --> 00:39:14,603 Why don't you give me your weapon? 375 00:39:15,395 --> 00:39:20,650 Well, I guess I'll just use his Jeep. I don't think he's gonna need it. 376 00:39:20,817 --> 00:39:22,944 Hold on a second, all right? 377 00:39:24,404 --> 00:39:25,864 Jesus! 378 00:39:26,031 --> 00:39:28,950 Sarge! Sgt. Grant! 379 00:39:31,745 --> 00:39:33,330 Sarge! 380 00:39:40,754 --> 00:39:43,840 - Jesus. - What? 381 00:39:44,007 --> 00:39:46,051 He's not gonna make it. 382 00:39:46,218 --> 00:39:49,429 - You can't operate on him? - Not me. You'd need a brain surgeon. 383 00:39:49,596 --> 00:39:53,475 And even if you had one, I don't think there's any hope. 384 00:39:56,811 --> 00:39:58,748 You find the shooter, I want him alive. Come on, help me. 385 00:39:58,772 --> 00:40:02,025 - What are you doing? - We're gonna go find a brain surgeon. 386 00:40:04,569 --> 00:40:07,822 Hey, lieb. He wants a noncom guarding each roadblock... 387 00:40:07,989 --> 00:40:10,134 And at least two men watching every road out of town. 388 00:40:10,158 --> 00:40:12,786 Bull, malark, you each take a squad and one of these witnesses... 389 00:40:12,953 --> 00:40:14,153 On a house to house search. 390 00:40:14,246 --> 00:40:18,416 - Can we shoot this bastard on sight? - Try and take him alive. 391 00:40:18,583 --> 00:40:20,001 Where's Grant now? 392 00:40:20,168 --> 00:40:24,214 They took him to a kraut hospital to see if they could drum up any good doctors. 393 00:40:33,306 --> 00:40:34,891 Open up. 394 00:40:39,521 --> 00:40:40,855 Come with me. 395 00:40:41,022 --> 00:40:43,275 - —Why? - Get in the Jeep. 396 00:40:46,403 --> 00:40:49,781 - Where are we going? - To the hospital. Get in. 397 00:40:50,865 --> 00:40:54,828 If you're going to shoot me, shoot me. If you're not, put the gun away. 398 00:40:54,995 --> 00:40:56,746 Get in the Jeep, now. 399 00:40:57,664 --> 00:41:00,875 - What happened to him? - He was shot in the head. 400 00:41:01,876 --> 00:41:03,712 Half-hour ago. 401 00:41:04,796 --> 00:41:08,049 - Come on. - If you want him to live, you'll help me. 402 00:41:08,216 --> 00:41:11,303 First, by putting that away. 403 00:41:13,221 --> 00:41:15,432 - Let's go. - Let me drive. 404 00:41:15,599 --> 00:41:18,184 We'll get there faster. 405 00:41:26,067 --> 00:41:29,154 All right, see what we got here. 406 00:41:30,363 --> 00:41:33,783 Jesus. Again, what a hand. 407 00:41:36,536 --> 00:41:38,955 I don't know who's taking a bigger beating, me or him? 408 00:41:39,122 --> 00:41:41,082 Wanna play a different game? 409 00:41:41,249 --> 00:41:44,169 Same game, just shuffle them up good, huh? 410 00:41:47,213 --> 00:41:50,091 - You all right? - Yeah, I'm all right. 411 00:41:51,009 --> 00:41:53,637 Wanna go in there and join in? 412 00:41:55,096 --> 00:41:57,140 I should go in there and stop this. 413 00:41:57,349 --> 00:42:00,935 Floyd, let's just play cards, all right? 414 00:42:06,650 --> 00:42:08,443 - Where is he? - How's Grant? 415 00:42:08,610 --> 00:42:11,071 - He okay? - Where is he?! 416 00:42:21,081 --> 00:42:22,749 This him? 417 00:42:23,792 --> 00:42:25,460 That's him. 418 00:42:27,921 --> 00:42:30,590 Replacement. I company. 419 00:42:32,050 --> 00:42:34,135 Where's the weapon? 420 00:42:35,720 --> 00:42:37,681 What weapon? 421 00:42:39,599 --> 00:42:43,061 When you talk to an officer, you say "sir." 422 00:43:33,361 --> 00:43:36,990 Have the mps take care of this piece of shit. 423 00:43:38,324 --> 00:43:40,785 - Grant's dead? - No. 424 00:43:42,328 --> 00:43:45,248 Kraut surgeon says he's gonna make it. 425 00:43:48,668 --> 00:43:52,213 Hey, tough guy, on your feet. Come on, move. 426 00:43:52,380 --> 00:43:53,965 Get up! 427 00:43:54,466 --> 00:44:00,013 I'm guessing they were Hitler's photo albums, sir. Sure had a lot of pictures of him in it. 428 00:44:00,180 --> 00:44:02,060 So you looked at them, but you didn't take them? 429 00:44:02,223 --> 00:44:05,226 - That's right, sir. - I don't believe you! 430 00:44:10,398 --> 00:44:14,068 I'll be watching you. You're dismissed. 431 00:44:17,155 --> 00:44:19,657 You better not be lying to me. 432 00:44:27,582 --> 00:44:30,335 If it's not gonna put you in too much of a bind... 433 00:44:30,502 --> 00:44:34,172 I'd like to resign as company first sergeant. 434 00:44:35,048 --> 00:44:38,843 If I had my choice, I miss being back amongst the men. 435 00:44:39,010 --> 00:44:43,348 I'd be happy to go to staff sergeant, whichever platoon you wanna put me in. 436 00:44:47,644 --> 00:44:51,481 Well, I guess you've earned your right to demote yourself. 437 00:44:51,648 --> 00:44:53,274 Thank you, sir. 438 00:44:54,526 --> 00:44:59,197 - You wanna take over sgt. Grant's platoon? - That would do fine, sir. 439 00:45:03,159 --> 00:45:06,830 All right then, report to it. Peacock. 440 00:45:08,790 --> 00:45:11,459 Let me know if he gives you any trouble. 441 00:45:13,253 --> 00:45:15,922 Oh, sir, you make your decision yet? 442 00:45:16,172 --> 00:45:17,715 Yeah, I did. 443 00:45:25,682 --> 00:45:28,434 So, what else is on your mind? 444 00:45:28,977 --> 00:45:32,564 I know easy company is gonna need a commanding officer postwar. 445 00:45:32,730 --> 00:45:36,192 Somebody to hold their hand, keep them from killing each other. 446 00:45:36,359 --> 00:45:39,362 It better be somebody who knows what they're doing. 447 00:45:39,529 --> 00:45:41,030 Yup. I couldn't agree more. 448 00:45:41,197 --> 00:45:45,159 It's absolutely irresponsible to leave them in the hands of the wrong person. 449 00:45:45,326 --> 00:45:49,038 They're too much of a valuable resource to the military. 450 00:45:52,709 --> 00:45:55,086 So you've decided to stay in the army? 451 00:45:55,461 --> 00:45:57,714 Yes, I'm gonna stay with the men. 452 00:45:59,549 --> 00:46:01,759 Well, I'm glad to hear it. 453 00:46:04,679 --> 00:46:07,348 So some of us would stay by choice. 454 00:46:07,515 --> 00:46:11,561 But others were stuck here, unless we could find excuses to send them away. 455 00:46:11,728 --> 00:46:13,354 So it's an airborne exhibition. 456 00:46:13,521 --> 00:46:16,941 They have one of every allied combat plane they've used in the war. 457 00:46:18,735 --> 00:46:20,028 I mean, yes, sir. 458 00:46:20,194 --> 00:46:23,907 You'll be like a technical adviser, make sure they get everything right. 459 00:46:24,073 --> 00:46:28,077 - I understand, sir. - Sorry it's not a more hospitable location. 460 00:46:28,244 --> 00:46:33,374 No, sir, Paris is just fine, if you need me to go. Someone has to be there. 461 00:46:33,541 --> 00:46:35,627 We do. We absolutely do. 462 00:46:35,793 --> 00:46:40,089 Your driver will drop you off at a hotel of your choice... 463 00:46:40,256 --> 00:46:44,636 And I don't think we'll see you back here anytime soon. 464 00:46:44,802 --> 00:46:47,055 I won't let you down, sir. 465 00:47:00,985 --> 00:47:03,363 Carwood, yes... 466 00:47:03,529 --> 00:47:07,533 I wanted to say, as you probably know... 467 00:47:07,700 --> 00:47:09,970 The army, when they give a man a battlefield commission... 468 00:47:09,994 --> 00:47:13,581 Make him an officer, they usually don't let him stay with the same company. 469 00:47:13,748 --> 00:47:16,376 Yes, sir. I figured this was coming. 470 00:47:16,626 --> 00:47:18,878 Yeah. They're afraid the men won't show him... 471 00:47:19,045 --> 00:47:21,485 The proper degree of respect as they would another officer. 472 00:47:21,631 --> 00:47:23,716 Yeah. It's a good theory, sir. 473 00:47:23,883 --> 00:47:26,761 It's an idiotic theory. Especially in your case. 474 00:47:26,928 --> 00:47:31,224 Nevertheless, they've given me the choice as to where to reassign you. 475 00:47:31,391 --> 00:47:35,103 And I thought battalion headquarters might be a good place. 476 00:47:35,269 --> 00:47:37,855 I can think of few better, sir. 477 00:47:41,317 --> 00:47:45,655 Right now, down at the airfield there is a German general... 478 00:47:45,822 --> 00:47:47,862 Who is a little po'd about having to surrender... 479 00:47:47,991 --> 00:47:50,159 To pvt. Babe heffron from south Philly. 480 00:47:50,326 --> 00:47:53,204 - Thinks it's beneath his stature. - Understandable, sir. 481 00:47:53,621 --> 00:47:57,959 Yeah. I thought 2nd it. Carwood lipton from West Virginia... 482 00:47:58,126 --> 00:48:02,130 - Could soothe his ruffled feathers. - No problem, sir. 483 00:48:02,296 --> 00:48:06,300 Major, is this the type ofjob I can expect from now on? 484 00:48:08,428 --> 00:48:12,682 Yeah. Yeah. When we're not sunning ourselves by the lake. 485 00:48:23,317 --> 00:48:24,736 Lieutenant. 486 00:48:33,953 --> 00:48:37,290 With your permission, I would like to address my men briefly. 487 00:48:37,457 --> 00:48:40,001 That'll be fine, general. 488 00:48:49,761 --> 00:48:51,971 - Capt. Sobel. - Maj. Winters. 489 00:48:52,138 --> 00:48:53,264 Capt. Sobel. 490 00:48:55,349 --> 00:48:58,478 We salute the rank, not the man. 491 00:49:22,752 --> 00:49:24,128 Liebgott? 492 00:49:25,671 --> 00:49:29,509 Men, it's been a long war, it's been a tough war. 493 00:49:33,012 --> 00:49:37,934 You have fought bravely, proudly, for your country. 494 00:49:41,270 --> 00:49:43,648 You are a special group... 495 00:49:46,818 --> 00:49:49,362 Who found in one another a bond... 496 00:49:54,784 --> 00:49:57,036 That exists only in combat... 497 00:49:58,871 --> 00:50:00,748 Among brothers... 498 00:50:02,625 --> 00:50:04,627 Of shared foxholes. 499 00:50:09,841 --> 00:50:12,426 Held each other in dire moments. 500 00:50:20,059 --> 00:50:23,396 Have seen death and suffered together. 501 00:50:30,778 --> 00:50:34,991 I am proud to have served with each and every one of you. 502 00:50:40,413 --> 00:50:44,458 You deserve long and happy lives in peace. 503 00:50:59,932 --> 00:51:01,559 Towel, towel, towel! 504 00:51:04,562 --> 00:51:06,731 Take a look at these two kids. 505 00:51:07,940 --> 00:51:10,568 What the hell happened to them? 506 00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:13,446 New Jersey, huh? 507 00:51:17,158 --> 00:51:18,576 Think about it. 508 00:51:19,327 --> 00:51:20,995 Yeah, I am. 509 00:51:22,997 --> 00:51:24,874 You awake yet? 510 00:51:26,167 --> 00:51:27,627 Awake? 511 00:51:29,086 --> 00:51:30,922 Time to go to bed. 512 00:51:45,770 --> 00:51:47,438 Come on, Jimmy. 513 00:51:49,398 --> 00:51:51,776 - Nice play. - We got one down. 514 00:51:51,943 --> 00:51:53,653 Come on, pee wee. Let's get Webster. 515 00:51:53,819 --> 00:51:56,697 Come on, pee wee, let's get him here, baby. 516 00:51:57,990 --> 00:52:01,827 Buck Compton came back to see the company to let us know he was all right. 517 00:52:01,994 --> 00:52:04,622 He became a prosecutor in Los Angeles. 518 00:52:04,789 --> 00:52:07,833 He convicted sirhan sirhan in the murder of Robert Kennedy... 519 00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:12,296 And was later appointed to the California court of appeals. 520 00:52:12,964 --> 00:52:15,508 David Webster became a writer for the Saturday evening post... 521 00:52:15,675 --> 00:52:19,887 And wall street journal, and later wrote a book about sharks. 522 00:52:20,054 --> 00:52:26,727 In 1961, he went out on the ocean alone, and was never seen again. 523 00:52:29,772 --> 00:52:31,649 Go, go, go! Yeah! 524 00:52:32,149 --> 00:52:35,486 Johnny Martin would return to his job at the railroad... 525 00:52:35,653 --> 00:52:38,197 And then start his own construction company. 526 00:52:38,364 --> 00:52:42,576 He splits his time between Arizona and a place in Montana. 527 00:52:44,954 --> 00:52:49,417 George Luz became a handyman in Providence, ri. 528 00:52:49,583 --> 00:52:53,045 And as a testament to his character... 529 00:52:53,254 --> 00:52:57,425 1600 people attended his funeral in 1998. 530 00:52:58,259 --> 00:53:03,180 Doc roe died in Louisiana in 1998. 531 00:53:03,889 --> 00:53:06,475 He 'd been a construction contractor. 532 00:53:08,644 --> 00:53:13,691 Frank perconte returned to Chicago and worked a postal route as a mailman. 533 00:53:20,323 --> 00:53:25,119 Joe liebgott returned to San Francisco and drove his cab. 534 00:53:27,038 --> 00:53:31,000 Bull rand/eman was one of the best soldiers I ever had. 535 00:53:31,167 --> 00:53:36,756 He went into the earth-moving business in Arkansas. He's still there. 536 00:53:43,596 --> 00:53:47,391 Alton more returned to Wyoming with a unique souvenir: 537 00:53:47,558 --> 00:53:50,519 Hitler's personal photo albums. 538 00:53:50,686 --> 00:53:54,690 He was killed in a car accident in 1958. 539 00:53:55,941 --> 00:53:59,070 Floyd talbert we all lost touch with in civilian life... 540 00:53:59,236 --> 00:54:04,283 Until he showed up at a reunion just before his death in 1981. 541 00:54:05,951 --> 00:54:11,332 How we lived our lives after the war was as varied as each man. 542 00:54:11,999 --> 00:54:14,335 Carwood lipton became a glass making executive... 543 00:54:14,502 --> 00:54:16,879 In charge of factories all over the world. 544 00:54:17,046 --> 00:54:20,049 He has a nice life in north Carolina. 545 00:54:20,299 --> 00:54:22,843 Harry Welsh, he married kitty grogan. 546 00:54:23,010 --> 00:54:27,807 Became an administrator for the wilkes-barre, pa school system. 547 00:54:30,518 --> 00:54:33,979 Ronald speirs stayed in the army, served in Korea. 548 00:54:34,146 --> 00:54:38,901 In 1958, returned to Germany as governor of spandau prison. 549 00:54:39,068 --> 00:54:41,987 He retired a lieutenant colonel. 550 00:54:46,617 --> 00:54:49,453 - Get them round. - All right, Webster. 551 00:54:49,620 --> 00:54:52,373 Easy company. School circle! 552 00:54:58,838 --> 00:55:02,633 For easy company, it was d-day plus 434. 553 00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:05,886 A fast man would've had it, perco. 554 00:55:06,053 --> 00:55:08,556 Listen up. Got some news. 555 00:55:10,099 --> 00:55:15,688 This morning, president Truman received the unconditional surrender from the Japanese. 556 00:55:16,272 --> 00:55:17,940 War's over. 557 00:55:19,775 --> 00:55:22,570 Regardless of points, medals or wounds... 558 00:55:22,778 --> 00:55:26,449 Each man in the 101st airborne would be going home. 559 00:55:27,491 --> 00:55:31,954 Each of us would be forever connected by our shared experience. 560 00:55:32,455 --> 00:55:36,542 And each would have to rejoin the world as best he could. 561 00:55:51,932 --> 00:55:54,768 Lewis Nixon had some tough times after the war. 562 00:55:54,935 --> 00:55:57,188 He was divorced a couple of times. 563 00:55:57,354 --> 00:56:02,026 Then in 1956 he married a woman named grace and everything came together for him. 564 00:56:02,193 --> 00:56:05,404 He spent the rest of his life with her, traveling the world. 565 00:56:05,571 --> 00:56:09,700 My friend lew died in 1995. 566 00:56:10,409 --> 00:56:14,914 I took up his job offer and was a personnel manager at the Nixon nitration works... 567 00:56:15,080 --> 00:56:19,251 Until I was called back into service in 1950 to train officers and rangers. 568 00:56:19,418 --> 00:56:23,672 I chose not to go to Korea. I'd had enough of war. 569 00:56:23,839 --> 00:56:28,177 I stayed around hershey, pa, finally finding a little farm... 570 00:56:28,344 --> 00:56:32,932 A little peaceful corner of the world, where I still live today. 571 00:56:33,098 --> 00:56:38,521 And there's not a day that goes by that I do not think of the men I served with... 572 00:56:38,687 --> 00:56:42,441 Who never got to enjoy the world without war. 573 00:56:42,608 --> 00:56:46,612 It's a very unusual feeling. 574 00:56:48,113 --> 00:56:51,992 It's a very unusual happening and it's a very unusual bonding. 575 00:56:52,159 --> 00:56:54,203 We knew that we could depend on each other. 576 00:56:55,704 --> 00:56:58,207 And so we were a close-knit group. 577 00:56:58,374 --> 00:57:00,584 Just brave. So brave, it was unbelievable. 578 00:57:01,961 --> 00:57:04,964 And I don't know anybody that I admire more... 579 00:57:05,130 --> 00:57:09,051 Than bill guarnere and Joe toye. 580 00:57:09,885 --> 00:57:12,054 They were very special. 581 00:57:12,221 --> 00:57:15,891 I'm just one part of the big war. That's all. One little part. 582 00:57:17,268 --> 00:57:22,523 And I'm proud to be a part of it. Sometimes it makes me cry. 583 00:57:22,731 --> 00:57:24,984 The real men, the real heroes... 584 00:57:25,150 --> 00:57:28,710 Are the fellows that are still buried over there and those that come home to be buried. 585 00:57:30,739 --> 00:57:34,535 Seemed like you thought that you could do just about anything. 586 00:57:34,702 --> 00:57:36,702 And after the war was over and you came back out... 587 00:57:38,163 --> 00:57:42,376 You lost a lot of that. Or at least I did. I lost all that confidence. 588 00:57:42,543 --> 00:57:46,046 You was hoping to stay alive. That's all. 589 00:57:48,215 --> 00:57:51,969 Henry v was talking to his men. 590 00:57:52,136 --> 00:57:54,555 He said, "from this day... 591 00:57:54,722 --> 00:57:57,600 To the ending of the world... 592 00:57:57,766 --> 00:58:01,186 We in it shall be remembered. 593 00:58:01,353 --> 00:58:05,482 We lucky few, we band of brothers. 594 00:58:05,649 --> 00:58:09,653 For he who today sheds his blood with me... 595 00:58:09,820 --> 00:58:11,488 Shall be my brother." 596 00:58:13,032 --> 00:58:15,034 Do you remember... 597 00:58:17,119 --> 00:58:20,581 The letter that Mike ranney wrote me? 598 00:58:20,748 --> 00:58:21,874 You do? 599 00:58:22,041 --> 00:58:24,960 Do you remember how he ended it? 600 00:58:26,337 --> 00:58:29,673 "I Cherish the memories... 601 00:58:29,840 --> 00:58:34,094 Of a question my grandson asked me the other day... 602 00:58:34,261 --> 00:58:39,683 When he said, 'grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' 603 00:58:42,394 --> 00:58:45,022 grandpa said, 'no... 604 00:58:48,984 --> 00:58:52,655 But I served in a company of heroes.”