Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitlers Eagles Nest

As good a rifle company as any, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, US Army, kept getting tough assignments--responsible for everything from parachuting into France early DDay morning to the capture of Hitlers Eagles Nest at Berchtesgaden. In Band of Brothers, Ambrose tells of the men in this brave unit who fought, went hungry, froze & died, a company that took 150% casualties & considered the Purple Heart a badge of office. Drawing on hours of interviews with survivors as well as the soldiers journals & letters, Stephen Ambrose recounts the stories, often in the mens own words, of these American heroes.ForewordWe wanted those wings Camp Toccoa, 7-12/42Stand up & hook up Benning, Mackall, Bragg, Shanks, 12/42-9/43Duties of the latrine orderly Aldbourne, 9/43-3/44Look out, Hitler! Here we come! Slapton Sands, Uppottery, 4/1-6/5/44Follow me Normandy, 6/6/44Move out! Carentan, 6/7-7/12/44Healing wounds & scrubbed missions Aldbourne, 7/13-9/16/44Hells highway Holland, 9/17-10/1/44Island Holland, 10/2-11/25/44Resting, recovering & refitting: Mourmelon-le-Grand, 11/26-12/18/44They got us surrounded-the poor bastards Bastogne, 12/19-31/44Breaking point Bastogne, 1/1-13/45 Attack Noville, 1/14-17/45Patrol: Haguenau, 1/18-2/23/45Best feeling in the world: Mourmelon, 2/25-4/2/45Getting to know the enemy: Germany, 4/2-30/45Drinking Hitlers champagne Berchtesgaden, 5/1-8/45Soldiers dream life Austria, 5/8-7/31/45Postwar careers 1945-91Acknowledgments & SourcesIndex