06.Bastogne
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Easy Company's experiences in the Battle of the Bulge are told from the perspective of Technician 5th Grade Eugene Roe, a company medic, as he witnesses death and destruction all around him, yet is rather powerless to help. The company is required to hold ground near the strategic Belgian crossroads town of Bastogne despite shortages of ammunition, food, medical supplies, winter gear, personnel, and inadequate leadership in the form of Lieutenant Norman Dike. The misery of simply "holding the line" is punctuated by occasional combat patrols (one of which goes awry), German assaults, and intermittent heavy shelling, all of which are depicted in the episode.
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This episode depicts actions leading up to and including a battle in the town of Foy, Belgium, after the siege of Bastogne has been broken. A central theme of the episode is that of leadership, of which Lieutenant Norman Dike provides a negative example. The actions of 1st Sergeant C. Carwood Lipton, who also narrates the episode in voiceover, and his effectiveness at holding the company together in what he describes as "the low point of the war" are examined. The consequences of poor leadership are made apparent during Easy Company's assault on Foy, and the company gets a new commander, Lt. Ronald Speirs. Easy's new commander reinforces the importance of NCOs in a closing scene set in a church, which also features a montage of Easy's losses thus far in the war.
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With the war seemingly in its final weeks, Easy Company is rejoined at Haguenau by David Webster (whose book Parachute Infantry was a prime source for both Ambrose's book and the scriptwriters). Webster's voiceovers convey the feelings of a combat veteran missing Easy's biggest challenge — Bastogne — and trying to fit back into the company after a long absence. Replacement Lieutenant Jones (played by Colin Hanks, son of the executive producer, Tom Hanks) also joins the company. A dangerous mission (from which the episode gets its title) — seemingly senseless so late in the war — is reluctantly carried out by the weary company, and with the end so near, inexperienced soldiers like Lieutenant Jones and even the company clerk are eager to see action before the finish. Captain Winters, however, seems determined to avoid unnecessary losses with the end in sight, and his surprising order at the end of the episode reveals another facet of his character. Winters receives promotion to Major at the end of the episode.
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With major combat all but over, the episode follows Easy Company in the last days of the war, as attention passes from combat to creature comforts and thoughts of home. The episode also focuses on Captain Lewis Nixon, whose service on loan to the 17th Airborne during Operation Varsity gives him more combat jumps than most other 101st troopers (though ironically, he has never fired his weapon in combat). Replacement Private Patrick O'Keefe's eagerness for battle highlights the war weariness of Easy Company's veteran survivors, and the necessity of the sacrifices Easy Company has made in four years of war is highlighted by the discovery of a concentration camp near Landsberg.
The latter half of the episode focuses on the discovery of a German concentration camp on a routine patrol. Although occupying a small segment of the book, this plot element serves to explore, as Ambrose puts it, the "unfathomable nature" of the evil behind the war, while also humanizing some of the typically tougher characters, such as Joseph Liebgott, himself a Jew. The company is present for the mandatory cleanup of the camp imposed on the local population by the division commander of the 101st Airborne, Maj. Gen. Maxwell Taylor. The title of the episode is derived from Ambrose quoting Winters: "The impact of seeing those people (the inmates) behind that fence left me saying, only to myself, "Now I know why I am here.'"
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As Easy Company enters Berchtesgaden at the conclusion of the European war and captures Hitler's Eagle's Nest, time is taken to reflect on long years of training and months of combat. Garrison life proves to be almost as dangerous as combat, and casualties continue to mount after VE Day, from traffic accidents and access to alcohol and firearms.
In the background is the spectre of reassignment to the Pacific and the officers (highlighted by voiceovers by Major Winters) struggle with the choices available to them: volunteer to fight in the Pacific or go home to an uncertain future. The final minutes of the dramatic presentation review in voiceover what the Easy veterans went on to do after the war, and the series ends as it began, with interviews of actual Easy survivors.
The anonymous interview subjects are finally identified during these final scenes. The survivors are identified as Richard Winters, Carwood Lipton, Donald Malarkey, William Guarnere, John Martin, Shifty Powers, and Babe Heffron.
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